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minimal because
grander ideas fail us

pattern complexity ambience
calm chaos (busy) uniformity/regularity
peace enigmatic meaningless
regular non-relational (stella)

good i ruined it

emerging art fizzes
when you open it

postmodernism as a way
to talk yourself out of it

5 year plan

momentuhmmm

either
either

somewhat superstitious is okay

mysticism stinks

it's the tiny flourishes
and the broad field

untitled is to visual art what
show don't tell is to fiction

unfinished

*what makes a star a star
or an asterisk, for that matter

craft
entertainment
decoration
luxury goods

spilling coffee

different lengths
of silence or blank paper
or an unending scream

collage aesthetic

that germane writer with
migrants named ceviche

wonder about impulse
and qualities

what would a tourist do

gravity goes like thisstruggle

sub-pseudo-sub-sub-counter-anti-cultural investigations

name it without
giving it a title

somehow
split
down
the
middle

olnley
lonely

text with
out hand
writing or
de sign

what can be said
about a chair in drawing it
that can't be said with a photo

ok yeah that

name it after the teacher
who said don't do it that way

intermission

beware of ideas that
run ahead of execution

the artist as project manager
process as product development
experimentation as r&d

halfway

waiting

clutter is the same as no focus

chaos breeds images^**Francis Bacon

when the lights are off
and the gallery is closed
is a shadow inevitable
if the object is specific

make it
don't plan it

museum security

move along folks
nothing to see here

adjust desire for perfection

one vintage print to rule them all

practice the virtue
of the momentum
of practice

you've got to enter
the unknown often

a drawing and a photograph
walk into a bar

the
a bunch of
unfinished
lines×

another irony of
material and message

no demonstrable
need for any of it

an artist who works exclusively
with the middle finger

a minimalism that makes you
think of the hole in the wall

art can be anything

people paint because they like painting

the caves of last co.

some deep
think tank

appropriation

art is easy except
for the law degree

people make pictures
not rules

use consistency
to direct attention

sincere apologies
for not making
more art recently

working in series

call in a continuity expert

street still life as
geometric abstraction
by way of minimal
process aesthetic

to shed light on an
image saturated world
or simply add to it

hand made hand made hand
made hand made hand made
hand made ANDM ADEH NDMA
DEHA DMAD EHAN MADE HAND
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DMAD hand made hand made
hand made hand made hand
made hand made hand made

postmodernism

shake the letter a
out falls the letter b

identify primitives

the thing as evidence
of its own making

resist the urge to catalog

searching for the lines

conceptual art is
a combination tone

things that work right away then fade
things that don’t work at first then grow
things that work and remain
things that never work

a way to get things
on the same surface

expanded practice
rooted practice
contemporary practice
practice practice

special fx

rough patch morale

museum is an office building

vatican is a cash register

in put in put in
put in put in put
in put in put in
put in put in put
in put in put in

put out put out put
out put out put out
put out put out put
out put out put out
put out put out put

don't repeat
yourself

when you have to tell
them which way is up

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you can look it up
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pile of dead

the self is in the sensibility
it doesn't need to talk

your confusion as feature

emerging artist
emerging market
artist market
artist emerging
market emerging
market artist

idea or balloon

the extract repressionists

an artist who works exclusively
with ball and chain

my kid could do that
(of course your kid could do that)

my kid could do that
(i'm not a parent)

black outlines are easy

mostpardonism

the artist went out
into the expanded field
and moved the fence
closer to the house

on formal concerns in visual art

“please tell mr. jagger
i am not maurits to him”
— m.c. escher

explores notions
shifts perspectives
upsets expectations

subverts inverts interrogates mines challenges questions deploys

apparently

not so much mastery
but processing

you have to be okay with the ones
that hang around looking useless

material

the work will stare at you and say
well?

a place to play

you tend to do early
what you will a lot more later
(your passion is already there)

on the state of the art of the state
of the art of the state of the art
of the state of the art of the state

research dignifies
what is unserious if
stumbled upon

have a plan so you're doing something
when the other thing happens

use uniformity
to confuse potential

One-hundred-and-six
thematically stitched triptychs
of various sizes and styles titled
Art and the Acquired
Ability to Believe

missed opportunity
(this earth, this card)

manifesto×

document-like
no spectacle
leave no trace
poetic

mixed media

my new album
as pencil drawing

not to render
nor interpret

stop thinking things like
ocean cloud shark flower

(there are)
many configurations

money dignifies
what is frivolous if
unpaid for^**Virginia Woolf

i neon
you neon
she neons
he neons
we neon
they neon

don't repeat
yourself

choice or configuration

blue or yellow

rand function or i-ching

variable-width masking tape corrects
persistent sense of perspective

painting
contemporary
tradition
modern
fetish
the mark

cy not sigh

do as little as possible

bonus

studio assistants as doping

explain what it is you do
while not thinking about it
while you do it

we are the pointillists

resistance is futile

on size

at some point you get the picture

a
just pictures
manifesto

the wall above
the couch in
the livingroom

digital process

the calculator app

programming or code
as gestural device

conceptual


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sensual

more confounded furniture

if it covers it's
wallpaper unless
it's paint

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