One Night I Dreamed

“One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and went out and bought the materials to begin it,” Jasper Johns has been quoted saying for decades. Well, last night I dreamed I destroyed a large painting, and the sound of the scraping of the painted surface woke me up the next morning, and I was horrified at having done it, and it seemed like an Agnes Martin painting, but in other moments it was the craggy surface of Jasper Johns’s Fragment of a Letter bronze I was peeling off, except that was all part of the dream, too, and then I got up and blogged the draft to begin it. detail from Jasper Johns, Fragment of a Letter, 2009, bronze, via Matthew Marks Gallery Somehow maybe the Jasper Johns ASL works I’d fallen asleep trying to write about collided with the paintstripping reels I get served on instagram. Screenshot And I can’t tell if the Agnes Martin connection was her destructive tendencies or her geometry: Agnes Martin, White Flower, 1960,…