December 22nds

12/22/1999

Cable installed. Now this is the way to surf the internet!

Apparently, terrorists are invading United States borders, but I suspect that most of them are already here as American citizens.

12/22/2016

I’m still not sold on the idea to stop making objects, but perhaps they should not be kept around, but rather be put in places where they have no intimate connection to the lives of the artists. This has an interesting connection to the whole idea of Minimalism, to be coldly detached from emotion and devotion, that results in objects such as white and black paintings, plain white cubes, and so on, that only exist in public and not in private collections of people with no connection with the artist.

[12/22/2024: This is an argument in favor of art being representative requiring no explanation, but I think artists tire of it. If everything you do is some literal representation of the world, why not just make stills from surveillance cameras? That’s quite interesting actually: photorealist paintings made from webcam stills. The explanation of that process is what would make them more interesting. If people see them first as decorative landscapes, the fact that they have a digital source makes them all the more interesting. But they still stand alone as paintings, and if it’s hanging on a wall in 100 years, that person won’t know it’s a webcam shot. I stopped making physical art in 2019].