It's a fine balance between design and the thing making itself happen. The stroke has to have complete precision to work. Sometimes I lose it on the exit. You can't fudge it. It ruins the whole thing. The resulting figures are almost always contained within the rectangle. It's less of a window if I keep it within the confines of the canvas, but there's almost always a drip that's an umbilical cord.

James Nares: new paintings (ed. 2005)