Friday, August 21, 2009

Measure Once, Cut Twice

Materials contain meaning, meaning that grows out of the color and texture that the material is. How smooth, rough, thick or thin, bright or dull, dark or light, opaque or transparent, labored over or half-a**ed, created or appropriated. There are no rules, except that all the above mentioned ways thing vary must be considered each on its own, and then considered in relationship to the whole, and then on its own again, and back and forth like googlie eyes. But if you try to think about it, then its no longer interesting, and its definitely no longer art. But if you don’t think about it sometime, it will hard to understand why what you are doing makes sense. I think you have to think about it when no one is watching, and then deny that you ever did.