Add to ORKGThe decision to make a painting is already to work within a certain tradition. Material choices must be made but a painting begins with a motivation somewhere else in the imagination, within the context of an on-going practice but also within the context of a life lived.How does admiration work itself into one’s own painting?What does it mean to make painting in direct relation to the work of someone else?Between 1609-10 Caravaggio painted a scene with four characters that belong to a Biblical narrative (Salome Receives the Head of John the Baptist) and the painting now hangs in the National Gallery. At home I have painted numerous watercolours of this painting from a postcard. Perhaps, I have become familiar with the painting ‘by heart’ an...