Tonight, after a long day I read the New Yorker article on John Currin. I can't say I like his paintings but I can appreciate them and am glad they're out there. At the end of the article there were 3 quotes that I thought were amazing and felt right, I was surpirsed he said them actually...
1. The meaning of painting is what you do with your hands
2. The way things are painted trumps everything else
3. So much art now doesn't want to look like art, but painting can't help it
Walking around the city is like excavating an ancient future. There is better art around the walls of buildings than most of Chelsea. These things I am finding are simple, essential information kind of images. All of the unnecessary stuff is omitted and they are truly minimal. I hope my own work can have as much inside as these 2 things I found right next to each other on the corner of 18th and 7th ave.
Today on NPR, they talked about the UFO sighting in Stevensville, TX and what the people saw. There was a bright red light, which was large in diameter and moved very fast. Army fighter jets were chasing the UFO and the people thought this was evidence that what they were seeing was not an everyday occurrence.
These are strange signs that I like to pay attention to.
OK, so it has been months since I worked on the blog and originally it was set up as a beginning to the print project I worked on this summer with sonnenzimmer, which was an amazing experience.
What I had really imagined the blog becoming was a place to show all of the amazing things I see everyday that sometime become art and sometimes do not. I walk around with camera, see something of wonder, take picture, and then look at it for a long time until it works it's way into becoming a painting or a drawing.
The things I love finding are usually small or obscure, overlooked, and kind of strange when you spend time really looking at it. This seems to make sense to me. In this world of bigger, louder and more, more, more, it is my hope to spark a quiet revolution.
I hope to use this blog as a place to show some of these pictures that are used mostly as source material and allow them to exist in their own rite.
