Mein Himmel, wie liebe ich Dich Annerl und Dein Kuß ist mir lieber als eine Landschaft.
— Franz Kafka, Beschreibung eines Kampfes
Dein Himmel
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Image As Debris
this is how we see the world
you don’t know where a picture begins and where a picture ends
“I wanted to pull out everything that was nameable in my work and have people look at fragments of both paint and images coming together—filtering together—and then falling apart.”
not representing something else
–sarah sze
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There is No Such Thing as a Picture
Nothing is stable, all is shifting, changing. There is no such thing as a picture, it is an impossibility and a mirage to believe so.
— Phillip Guston
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Waste of Time
“Why make things so difficult for the viewer?
“We are a consumer-society, and it seems to me that art has become a passive ‘spectator sport’ to an extent unprecedented in history.I have always tried to work against this tendency by producing ‘occasions for interpretation’ rather than ‘objects for consumption’.I believe that the ability to produce rather than consume meanings, and the ability to think otherwise ways of thinking not encouraged by the imperative to commodity production, ways condemned as ‘a waste of time’ – is fundamental to thegoal of a truly, rather than nominally, democratic society. I believe art is one of the few remaining areas of social activity where the attitude of critical engagement may still be encouraged – all the more reason then for art to engage with those issues which are critical.”
— Victor Burgin
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Nothing in My Mind
Herne/Klaus
For me it is important to have nothing in my mind at all when I’m taking photos.
— Rinko Kawauchi
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The Abstract Machine
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Our Darkness
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The Bleed
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The Double Window
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Forty-Two
NEVER MISS A GOOD CHANCE TO SHUT UP
REFUSE TO NARRATE
BORED BY PLOT
INFORMED BY ABSENCES
WHAT IS LEFT OUT, SCRATCHED OUT
PROGRESS BY: REPETITION REVISION ERASURE
— Janet Malcolm, Forty-One False Starts
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