Biography
A wall, the floor, a box, glass, a carpet, paper, a table, a chair, a pillow – all of these can become a painting. Does that not make all those claims that painting is dead nothing more but a neo-conservative wail? Are we talking about death or dying? It is that ambiguous condition the painting finds itself in that makes it potent. Painting continues to live and to eroticize itself through its ‘small deaths’.
Creating a piece of art must contain a discovery – a chance to see things in a new way, in a different way, with invention and improvisation, in direct contrast to ideology.