Monday, December 3, 2012

Untitled (for drawing on the left)

A writing on a drawing: it is derived from something, arrived at through a process of abstraction, subtraction, simplification, tranmogrification...yet it is hardly a product of anything. One might even be ashamed to call it part of a process, or an experimentation. No Expressionistic angst (or emo), no conceptual cool. No aesthetics, no idea. It looks more like a used paper palette than a drawing gone awry. Can one then consider such a drawing a drawing? One might not even be sure if the marks are intentional or unintentional; more likely something accidental. There are marks, yes, but they don't look like anything and they don't mean anything...is this great skill appearing as clumsiness, or the emperor's new clothes, or neither? Is this art, anti-art or non-art? What do you think? Me? Yes you, what do you think? Well, crush the paper, I say. It is not-yet-art. After you crush the paper, yes, now it becomes art.