I am willing to do this as best I can but I will take no responsibility about doing it wrong.”

So much of what we see in galleries is responding to the imperative to overproduce, overenlarge, overconsume, and for artists with ascending and funded careers this trajectory can seem all but unavoidable. As Roberta Smith points out, the primary meaning of these works is often: “I made this because I can.”

Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens.”

“visible wretchedness is counterbalanced by a hidden glory.”

utterly sanguine

“I take H [hashish] in order to be free. But in order to take H I must already be free.”

“The dullest, most inept and inconsequential snapshot, when isolated, framed (on a wall or by the margins of a book), and paid attention to, takes on all the uncanny significance, fascination, and beauty of R. Mutt’s fountain

Now that photo is all over the internet, completely out of my control.

The stars above, the plants below.