RALPH GOINGS | SACTO SPECTATOR SPORT

Private Collection, Australia (acquired directly from the artist circa 1968)

"My interest in all of the things I've painted has been their visual aura, and in the process of translating the image to paint on canvas, I do things to enhance this. Painting from a photograph serves a similar function as a frame in that it helps to isolate this fragment of reality like a frame does. And the process I use—taking the photograph, projecting it, drawing it, and then painting it—puts four different levels of interpretation between the actuality and the finished painting. During these steps, the thing that is out there that was at the beginning loses its importance. What's here in the painting is ultimately what I'm after."

- Ralph Goings in conversation with Linda Chase, "An interview with Ralph Going At His Studio in Charlotteville, New York," Ralph Goings, New York 1988, p. 21