I love listening to artists describing their art work at a ‘…critical stage…’ – I wish I knew when such stages have been reached in advance.  I usually discover that I have just passed a critical stage when things go wrong.   Perhaps no one really knows when such a stage has been reached because to do so needs to have some form of presence which I doubt even the greatest artist possess.

Anyway, for the record, this morning I tried to tighten things up and then box in the bare canvas – whether this is critical I really have no idea.