Time, Waiting and Painting

I have been spending time with the works and writings of Anselm Kiefer.  I will be visiting Kiefer’s large retrospective exhibit at the Centre Pompidu in Paris in a few weeks.  In a filmed interview Remembering the Future  he speaks of the importance of waiting.  How a painting will reveal more of itself if you wait.  Paintings and waiting is not something I would readily think of.  I am realizing what an important part of studio practice this is.

For time is always on the side of painting, as a slow form of intelligence that is deposited in layers in the construction of the image. – Gerrit Vermeiren (2007)