It's a privilege to actually
have the opportunity to engage in something that
is the antithesis of reason
I guess when God created the world
he maybe got a little tired at the end
so he only put a certain amount of things in
in the course of those seven days
and maybe poetry was something that he left out
and he left that for humans to do
Who said something about Kierkegaard today?
Nemo, it was great
It was funny
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom
and I guess you realize that you can't suffer if you don't have a soul
but is it better to have a soul and suffer, or not have a soul?
I started to use different kinds of materials
because I was looking for some kind of new way to paint
The world existed before I showed up,
I'm just basically reacting to it,
Working with things that already exist
affords you associations that
are beyond your invention
And my notion of painting has to do with freedom
I see opportunities everywhere, as paintings,
in images that already exist,
in surfaces that will respond to paint a certain way
Or it might come from an accident
Well the first impulses in my earlier work
was to look at walls,
and a lot of those walls had holes cut out of them, and they,
I thought, okay, that looks like the surface for a painting,
that's the architecture for a painting
And as I went full circle, I realized
that a picture could be the architecture of a painting also,
so I would select things that already had pictures,
images of things impregnated on them,
and then I could treat them as a blank canvas,
or paint on top of those things,
and let them inform what I was doing,
and make me react to what was there,
and come out with a hybrid painting,
or some kind of poetic
But ultimately they just become a stasis
where marks could float,
and where humanity can take place
It has as much to do with reacting
rather than acting
And you realize that
you've been drawn to the same things
before you even knew what they were
And in a way we're like
monkeys in a lab
and there's some other being
looking at us doing these things
That other being is ourselves
and as we have 20/20 vision and retrospect
and we look at these things that we've been doing
we start to understand what we're doing
and then we actually take them as information
and use those things as part of our itinerary
Things seem more circular,
more and more and more and more
like we get a hint of a vision for a moment
we get a glimpse of something
and then later we pick it up, somehow,
and get a chance to delve into it, or face it
But it really does have to do with life and death
But I think that's a big topic in art,
the topic
So that gives me a lot of joy
Real joy