That’s His Story.Not my Story- SunRa

Much Thanks to All!

Some people see Pollock in this series. Fair enough.

I work in many styles—and sometimes they all show up at once.

What’s harder to see in a photo is how layered these paintings really are. There’s a lot of preparation, a lot of steps, a lot of decisions along the way. If you spend time with them, you’ll find portraits, landscapes, animals, spirits, stories—sometimes all in the same piece.

So, when someone jumps to a quick label, I get curious. That reaction often says more about our need to categorize than it does about the work itself. What’s happening on the surface—and underneath it—comes from a different set of movements, questions, and choices.

If we followed labels all the way to their conclusion, every landscape would trace back to one origin, every portrait would feel like an echo, every jazz musician playing a standard would be called repetition instead of renewal. But art doesn’t move like that. It moves through variation, listening, response—through stories unfolding in real time

As Sun Ra said, “That’s his story, not my story.”