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• The fractured narrative of Mark Z. Danielewski's book, House of Leaves. influenced my sculpture The First Harry Potter Book. Dante's The Divine Comedy inspired the sculpture Hell.
• My dog's greatest tragedy is his lack of hands.
• BP's slogan was "Beyond Petroleum".
• Sometimes I am overwhelmed by too-numerous choices. Sometimes the best option is "none of the above". Unless it's toothpaste and then I must decide. The myriad flavors, colors, sensations, gels, pastes, sizes, tubes or pumps leave me swirly and breathless. I try to make it a happy-consumer-game, but it's not a fun game.
• Margaret Atwood: "Farewell is the song Time sings."
• Jeffrey Zeldman: "Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design; it’s decoration.”
• Kate Moss: "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels."
• I may spend my entire life without ever becoming rich or famous. I will work hard with no outworldly benefit or guarantee of future rewards. I will strive to do my best even if the accolades do not appear. I am my own harshest critic. I have no regrets and, if offered, would make the same decision again.
• Douglas Coupland: "Chew the bitter towelette of truth."
• A nice landscape painting is just that. I'm tired of nice landscape paintings.
• Alice Walker: "The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men."
• Elizabeth Aston: "It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again."
• William Shakespeare: "Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt."
• Charlotte Bronte: "Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation."
• Willem de Kooning: "Even an abstract form has to have a likeness."
• Anish Kapoor: "What one does in the studio is to pose a series of problems to oneself. I've got to look for some deeper meaning, for some reason for this thing to be in the world. There's enough stuff in the world."
• The art form of the twenty-first century is marketing.
• I find things. I make things that look found. I alter found things to look made. I combine these things to make new things.
• Change is the only constant.
• Food is not a toy.
• Begin again.
• The major purpose of memory is to predict the future.
• I wish I had asked Paige J. or Lisa C. to a school dance.
• Go-bama!
• Secret Lick
• William Blake: "Everything possible to be believ'd is an image of truth."
• Marcel Duchamp: "As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good-I use it because I have to, but I don't put any trust in it. We never understand eachother."
• Here is the simplest explanation of e=mc2 I have ever come across and still don't understand: space is time equals matter is energy.
• Richard Tuttle: "To make something which looks like itself is, therefore, the problem, the solution."
• Adaptogen: Substance that helps people adjust to changes in their physical and psychological environment.
• The difference between drawing and sculpture is dimension.
• Can you prove that everything didn't just pop into existence five minutes ago?
• California's new poet laureate Al Young on art: "It is only very young and inexperienced cultures that don't understand that art and culture are the most important byproducts of any society, you're not remembered for your armies or your navies. You're remembered for your music and for your stories. For your literature. For your dance. For your film. For your painting. For your great art. That is what ennobles a society."
• Marcel Duchamp: "The creative act is not performed by the artists alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act."
• J. Pavel: "A machine was the organizing principle among it's parts."
• A dialogue is established between the media and my intention. The work is evidence of the conversation.
• I explore a slow, more basic technology, with roots in the foundation of an industrial society. gears, levers, wheels, and physical linkages helped shape this type of society. A high-tech revolution of another time and place. Whether or not this society has actually existed is not important. The creation of objects that react and interact with unfamiliar situations allow me to explore the possibilities of what could exist.
• "Art can be a very isolating profession. You spend a lot of time in your own mind."
• Mechanically engineered botanicals.
• 4AD
• Carl Jung: "People cannot stand too much reality."
• "Whimsical" is a popular choice for describing my work. This is based on a non-scientific sampling of various people at various locations at various times.
• "Failure to vote is the mark of a satisfied citizen."
• By covering an object with paper and glue and then creating a surface, I say this is what it is now.
• Quality vs. Quantity
• An implied function or purpose.
• I think of my surfaces as 'history'. The surface is complete when the history feels believable. The surface takes about as much time as the physical making of the component.
• Demo-mode: engineering jargon for the malfunction of a device that has repeatedly worked well for you but ceases to operate when you attempt to demonstrate it's capabilities.
• Gravity is what object-based work struggles against. How a work engages the floor, or wall, interests me. The technical and conceptual resolution of stance.
• Anxiety is a powerful motivational force.
• The work is a record of my decisions.
• A grove of trees is engaged in a battle for light and nutrients. Shade is a WMD.
• First Sculpture
• Maxi M.
• A word, a phrase, the collision of two images and the suspected results.
• Forcing a title onto a sculpture rarely works for me. Either it is there initially as part of conception, or suggests itself during the process of making. It is a guide for both the maker and viewer.
• I never claimed to be a photographer.
• "The abstract work removes itself from the world by tearing away the envelope of resemblance to reveal in the most subjective manner the essence of a thing. Relieved from an obligation to reproduce the things of this world, or tediously to question the nature of representation itself, such an art is free to be introspective, addressing itself to matters of the spirit."
• '"Whittling is whittling," he says definitively. "I don't even like the term art. Most people who call themselves artists are weirdos. I don't want to be considered a weirdo."'
• Magick
• Occasionally I have made furniture. I rarely photograph it.
• A particle or a wave, but not both, and probably neither.
• Craftsmanship should be invisible, not call attention to itself. For me, it is not about how it is made, but rather what is made.
• Its not about the materials, but what the materials can do.
• Introvert, shy, solitary, misanthrope. I'm happy to be left alone.
• Does time flow? Why can we remember the past but not the future? If time does flow, does it flow at a steady rate? My subjective experience says no.
• Magdalena Abakanowicz: "At the beginning of every creative process is mystery, the inexplicable...one of the strongest motives of our time is the search for explanation, the need to explain everything away. Explanation is one of the means to tame the mystery of art. Talking about mystery has become indecent. Many people consider it pure mystification or a lack of intelligence. They want to identify mystery with a problem. And a problem is something which can be reduced to details suceptable to explanation. Mystery cannot be reduced to details. It is a whole which embraces us."
• Rube Goldberg
• (2001) How long will I have to wait for the next portishead? Until April 2008!
• The insidious marketing of corporate trends and celebrity gossip seems to eclipse all else. We are bombarded by shrill messages that promote the latest pop-culture fad as something important to our lives; the huckstering of the mass-media intent on promoting dissatisfaction and uncertainty. Our consumer culture shames us into fighting the visible signs of time, of the decay that belies our experience. We are indoctrinated to value the appearance of youth, of newness, at the expense of being confident in or about our bodies, or even our possessions. We are repeatedly told to believe 'new' is 'better' simply because it is new.
• Science fiction - Alternate realities
• Einstein: "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science"
• willits center for the arts
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