Save your painting continuously with a different file name.
A part of Electracy that I think is definitely present in our CATTt is the idea of time. Of course, this idea is heavily present in film especially. But time plays a role in both Jullien's text and Lacan's. I would like, for instance (though I'm sure I'm not the first) the archive as a historical tool that was not otherwise conducted with such ease before Electracy generally and the internet specifically.
In painting, one doesn't paint some new draft for every change that is made to the canvas. We can't archive the mishaps or the "happy accidents" that take place because we are consistently painting on the same canvas. We can't possibly think of doing otherwise. It logically doesn't make sense. Of course, some people might take pictures or video of their process, but not a lot of people did.
With the advent of sites such as Youtube, for instance, the time-lapse art project is easily documented, in video form. This too can be done with digital painting, but I think a more interesting process is the continuous saving method.
What this consists of is saving in intervals your painting so that you end up with a folder final product instead of one file. This folder will be filled with the history of your painting. The saving process is a little bit directed by the propensity of the picture itself. Sometimes I saved after just three brushstrokes, and sometimes I saved after a part of the painting was completed.
What this allows for is a tri-fecta of information.
The gap: the spaces where saving did not take place. What happened then? Can I remember?
The sequence: self evident. We get a stilted animation of how the painting progressed.
The montage: if the painting is put out of place chronologically, what occurs?
Make a video of this process so that these three parts of the plot can better observed.
Afternote: I experienced a kind of insane, neurotic need to save after a while. It became a compulsive habit that was actually a part of the painful process of this painting (My hand was hurting as if I'd been writing for longer than was healthy).
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