Thursday, December 04, 2025 | By: Todd Suttles
B eginning Again feels like a restart you can see — lines finding their place, colors testing the air, then settling with intention. My father continues to trust the moment when a piece asks to begin over; he doesn’t force the turn, he listens for it. The result is a surface that opens rather than closes.
In the studio, he often returns to a familiar set of anchors and lets new intervals grow between them. Beginning Again reads like that gentle reset: edges reconsidered, space made for breath, movement rekindled. Renewal here isn’t dramatic; it’s patient — the kind of change that arrives by choice.
This reflection is part of the Suttles Continuum, our family’s living archive and storytelling project. Through it, we’re preserving not just the artwork, but the rhythm of an ongoing creative life — the sketches, finished works, and stories that connect generations. Each piece, including Beginning Again, adds another line to that story, reminding us that renewal is a practice.
Studio Notes
What stays with me is how the reset in Beginning Again feels calm, not corrective. The lift comes from small, steady choices — edges reconsidered, color allowed to breathe — until the composition stands on its own.
It’s a reminder for my own work: begin as many times as needed, and let the next start be the right size.
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