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How (not) to Make Art
2016
an artist who works exclusively
with ball and chain
you've got to enter
the unknown often
the artist went out
into the expanded field
and moved the fence
closer to the house
to shed light on an
image saturated world
or simply add to it
searching for the lines
have a plan so you're doing something
when the other thing happens
mixed media
my new album
as pencil drawing
missed opportunity
(this earth, this card)
money dignifies
what is frivolous if
unpaid for**Virginia Woolf
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the caves of last co.
the extract repressionists
collage aesthetic
that germane writer with
migrants named ceviche
explores notions
shifts perspectives
upsets expectations
subverts inverts interrogates mines challenges questions deploys
apparently
emerging art fizzes
when you open it
variable-width masking tape corrects
persistent sense of perspective
what can be said
about a chair in drawing it
that can't be said with a photo
ok yeah that
One-hundred-and-six
thematically stitched triptychs
of various sizes and styles titled
Art and the Acquired
Ability to Believe
minimal because
grander ideas fail us
either
either
one vintage print to rule them all
pattern complexity ambience
calm chaos (busy) uniformity/regularity
peace enigmatic meaningless
regular non-relational (stella)
a way to get things
on the same surface
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
unfinished
the
a bunch of
unfinished
lines×
no demonstrable
need for any of it
use uniformity
to confuse potential
another irony of
material and message
manifesto×
document-like
no spectacle
leave no trace
poetic
conceptual art is
a combination tone
material
don't repeat
yourself
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you can look it up
online
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pile of dead
a place to play
mostpardonism
the self is in the sensibility
it doesn't need to talk
beware of ideas that
run ahead of execution
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
programming or code
as gestural device
gravity goes like thisstruggle
working in series
call in a continuity expert
you tend to do early
what you will a lot more later
(your passion is already there)
when you have to tell
them which way is up
practice the virtue
of the momentum
of practice
somehow
split
down
the
middle
special fx
5 year plan
we are the pointillists
resistance is futile
idea or balloon
waiting
somewhat superstitious is okay
mysticism stinks
museum is an office building
vatican is a cash register
rough patch morale
untitled is to visual art what
show don't tell is to fiction
clutter is the same as no focus
chaos breeds images**Francis Bacon
choice or configuration
blue or yellow
rand function or i-ching
the work will stare at you and say
well?
(there are)
many configurations
what would a tourist do
text with
out hand
writing or
de sign
people make pictures
not rules
on size
at some point you get the picture
it's the tiny flourishes
and the broad field
conceptual
|
no bullshit —— + —— no bullshit
|
sensual
craft
entertainment
decoration
luxury goods
not to render
nor interpret
momentuhmmm
studio assistants as doping
painting
contemporary
tradition
modern
fetish
the mark
cy not sigh
art can be anything
people paint because they like painting
a drawing and a photograph
walk into a bar
the thing as evidence
of its own making
do as little as possible
on formal concerns in visual art
“please tell mr. jagger
i am not maurits to him”
— m.c. escher
when the lights are off
and the gallery is closed
is a shadow inevitable
if the object is specific
some deep
think tank
wonder about impulse
and qualities
explain what it is you do
while not thinking about it
while you do it
good i ruined it
use consistency
to direct attention
halfway
appropriation
art is easy except
for the law degree
hand made hand made hand
made hand made hand made
hand made ANDM ADEH NDMA
DEHA DMAD EHAN MADE HAND
ADEH ANDM DEHA NDMA EHAN
DMAD hand made hand made
hand made hand made hand
made hand made hand made
a minimalism that makes you
think of the hole in the wall
make it
don't plan it
the wall above
the couch in
the livingroom
name it after the teacher
who said don't do it that way
*what makes a star a star
or an asterisk, for that matter
bonus
my kid could do that
(of course your kid could do that)
an artist who works exclusively
with the middle finger
museum security
move along folks
nothing to see here
research dignifies
what is unserious if
stumbled upon
sub-pseudo-sub-sub-counter-anti-cultural investigations
expanded practice
rooted practice
contemporary practice
practice practice
intermission
don't repeat
yourself
a
just pictures
manifesto
emerging artist
emerging market
artist market
artist emerging
market emerging
market artist
olnley
lonely
postmodernism as a way
to talk yourself out of it
the artist as project manager
process as product development
experimentation as r&d
resist the urge to catalog
sincere apologies
for not making
more art recently
postmodernism
shake the letter a
out falls the letter b
name it without
giving it a title
you have to be okay with the ones
that hang around looking useless
your confusion as feature
digital process
the calculator app
identify primitives
my kid could do that
(i'm not a parent)
different lengths
of silence or blank paper
or an unending scream
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
if it covers it's
wallpaper unless
it's paint
not so much mastery
but processing
more confounded furniture
i neon
you neon
she neons
he neons
we neon
they neon
adjust desire for perfection
spilling coffee
stop thinking things like
ocean cloud shark flower
street still life as
geometric abstraction
by way of minimal
process aesthetic
black outlines are easy