When I'm getting ready to paint, usually there is a quieting period, taking the edge of high excited energy down to a harness-able wattage.  Sometimes I'll take a few photographs, mill around looking at the work that's in process on the walls, smooth out some canvases, or often sit quietly for a very long time, listening to the wind or the stillness, so that the focus shifts to the senses and out of my busy and more linear mind.  I think of this process as getting out of the way, so that the distance between ideas, what is seen, what is felt, and what goes down on canvas, is very small.  I was curious to see if I could capture this process of "getting out of the way" on video.  This take was 23 minutes long, but compressed into one minute.