I also would like to live 1980

Mariam Aslamazian made "I also would like to live" with paint on canvas. I can imagine the scene – dabs of color accumulating into this melancholic weeping willow. The paint is applied thinly in layers. You can almost see the white of the canvas peeking through here and there. I wonder if she started with the dark, almost black, twisting, writhing trunk, then added the wispy leaves? The way they fall down like tears, it makes me think about the vulnerability of being alive, you know? The desire to just *be*. There's this crazy energy in the brushstrokes, like she was trying to capture something fleeting, like the wind. It reminds me a little bit of some of Guston’s later works when he painted with such freedom, just letting the brush do its thing. Anyway, seeing how different artists tackle similar themes is always a trip, and reminds me that painting is just one big conversation.