Dreaming as a plea
This morning I awoke with the notion that to dream is to request assistance when I do not even know what to request.
#ARTnotesView full threadThe common good as an alibi
There are those who decide upon the lives of others, sometimes many, for the sake of their reputation; to retain or advance their position in an imagined career. And they are absolved by invoking the common good.
#notasART …View full threadReading live
Recalling Cela and the phrase he never said: it is not the same to be screwed as it is to be screwing. Grammar makes all the difference. Participle versus gerund: what happened to you and what you are doing.
…View full threadThe reverse of the canvas
Behind a painting lies a world that no one observes: the wood of the stretcher, the wedges in the corners, a date in pencil, superimposed customs labels, the dust settled on the crossbar. The work t…View full threadWhat fits in the archive
A model that generates images has processed millions of paintings. Has it seen them? It has seen files: reproductions, tagged pixels. Not the scale, the matter, the room, the light moving over…View full threadThe correct distance
Every painting has a distance from which it is viewed best. Neither too close, where there is only matter and texture, nor so far that it becomes a mere print. The painter knows it: they painted by going back and forth, searching for it.
#no…View full threadMy hands
When painting in large format, there comes a moment when I release the brush and engage with my hands. It is not technique but necessity. The surface demands contact, my palm pushing, my fingers dragging.
#notasART…View full threadThe draft was the work
I almost always prefer the sketch to the finished work. It is not humility or a pose: in the quick sketch there is a life that later, upon completion, escapes. The line that searches says more than the line that …View full threadThe new price of the human
It is said everywhere: the more machine-driven, the more expensive the handmade, the slow, the personal touch becomes. It sounds good. But it is worth examining what is being sold underneath.
#notasART 1/4View full threadThe cloud does not get wet, but it drinks
We call something weightless a "cloud", as if data were floating. They do not float: they live in server farms that consume electricity, occupy land, and drink water to avoid overheating. The metaphor is so beautiful t…View full threadThe colour that only exists when wet
Anyone who has painted knows it: the freshly applied, damp colour is not the colour that will remain once dry. It vibrates; it is deeper, more vivid. Upon drying, it fades. And one learns to paint by anticipating…View full threadThe empty museum at first light.
Anyone who has entered a gallery before it opens knows it is something else entirely. The work is the same; what happens in front of it has nothing to do with the midday of elbows, raised mobile phones, and twenty visits …View full thread
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