I don’t really enjoy holidays that much – though this year, overall, I’m less depressed than I usually am around this time of year – maybe it’s all the friends and social life I have, a lot to be thankful for.

But this painting isn’t really about that – it’s about what I’m feeling – was feeling, over the last few days.    Poing being, Art exists for a lot of reasons, but the main one, the one I’m interested in, is to say that which can’t be said in words or any other way – but which you know is true in your Gut.

That’s what Manet had – that what I feel when I look at his paintings – his feelings – and when I look at Cezanne’s work, it’s a great mind at work, re-architecting nature – but what strikes me is the feelings he had when he did it.

That’s what I hoped I captured when I took my video footage in Aix last year.

Anyway- here’s the painting – and then you can see how it’s done.