"I think of the painting as a record of the time spent with this thing in its environment. How do you make the conditions to have a really long, uninterrupted time with something? Different things come from that than an hour here and an hour there. I’ve been painting in a single session while the paint is still wet, so that kind of committing to being in a single place over time, I would never do that normally. I would never spend 12 hours standing in front of something, but I do because of painting. It’s the experience which feeds the painting, but it’s also the painting which feeds the experience."
—Josephine Halvorson
"Close Encounters with Josephine Halvorson," New York Close Up, Art21
