life:

Unpublished. Despite moving out of the city to live on a farm near the ocean, it’s hard to say that nature was an inspiration for Pollock’s paintings, which were so abstract that their only apparent source was the artist’s subconscious. Still, nature found its way into his paintings in the form of sand (which this unpublished Holmes photo shows Pollock gathering) and other organic materials that the artist routinely applied to his canvas along with his paints.

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