Jacob Lawrence, Confrontation at the Bridge (1975)

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January 10, 2005:

Anger can be helpful, it can move you forward, it can lead to resolution. But only, I think, if you steer it toward resolution. Left to itself it's a diffuse emotion with a tendency to expand in all directions, touching things that don't belong to it, causing damage where there doesn't need to be. This is my experience anyway. For a good while I was glad to be angry because I felt it moved me toward resolution of issues which previously had seemed impossible. Now I think it's probably in the way.

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