"Rick's paintings take me into the frame. As if I said to him, paint me that time I wanted to last forever. And he did. He can show you how now looks. No matter what else changes, that now is a set point which holds still. You can go back there. Again and again, 'once upon a time' is yours. Always, already, assuringly the same. And yet, days' end, what once you saw as a beat to weather might have become the rhumb line home. His work accommodates your shifting (in)sight. What his paintings present stand up to time. However much I moved around, I can ground myself in his colors and spaces. I can sit down. "

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