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MY DECALOGUE
- Consider experiment as the normal route.
- Proceed using trial and error.
- Don't worry if your work looks inconsistent. On the contrary make your work appear as inconsistent as possible.
- Don't deny tradition.
- Don't be crushed by its weight.
- Embrace paradox.
- Do not be a scientist.
- Do not be an artist.
- Be aware that you manipulate people with images - don't use your art for distorted or immoral purposes.
- Be an expression of all your personality.
You will never escape yourself in your work. From your best image to your worst failure- from your most original to your most plagiarized- all of it is an expression of your personality. It is the same for what you choose to read and to look at and how you decide to act. Each choice determines the next one. That is why all work is somehow unified no matter how you try to deny it.
Art is the crossroads where the spiritual and the physical coexist.
CONSIDERATIONS
The genius of simple statement stated simply.It is often said that the artist participates in the divine. This has some truth to it . Everyone participates in the divine (all human actions can be seen as participatory in the divine). Sayng that the artist participates in the divine is not enough. It is unclear.
Artists are introverts who live within another world - a world of pleasure or rather a world where even pain, torture and suffering can become pleasurable in some strangely masochistic way. Certainly we all love to see the violence perpetrated in movies also because it does not hurt us.
All images a person looks at ultimately affect and shape his personality. Choose to be selective when discernig what to view. If one learns to do this properly images can become medicine.
Many have said that my landscapes are pure rehash of things that have already been done. I see their point - what is new about my landscapes can remain unseen.
- the city, the industrial machine, and the computer age must coexist with the archaic.
- My painting exists as archaic ritual.
- Painting is dead. It died in the 50's and maybe just a little before then. Since then painting lost its primacy to collage, sculpture, performance, video, and computer art. I use painting as "relic of a performance.
- It is not the painting which is the art, but the action of painting, how it was painted.
- Because painting is dead my painting can be equated to restoration work - I am not restoring the actual masterpeice. I am trying to restore (preserve the memory of) the act of painting in the countryside.