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I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

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Ali Banisadr

Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work.

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Say someone tells me their name - that name can turn into a taste or a color and that's how I categorize it in my mind. It's an easy way of categorizing things.

Color, Easy, Mind, Names, Tells, Way

I never think about actual things when I'm painting. I'm not thinking, "I'm going to put a person here, a tree here and a bird there. " The beginning stage is always the sound. From that, slowly, stories come about based on what I'm reading or thinking at the time, but if I didn't have that sound I don't know what I would do.

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I sometimes say the conflict in the work is the conflict of my own thoughts and anxieties. It's a civil war in my head. The top part [of my artwork] is you letting go and floating. You become part of the air and you've tapped into the heartbeat of the universe. I guess that's what people do when they meditate.

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When I am working on a painting, everything that I am thinking about at the time be it current events, the books I am reading, personal events, influences, emotions, etc. all find their way into my work.

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People quickly look through things and don't sit and experience. That's a problem with artwork, [because] it's more of an experience than something to quickly look at. It takes a while for everything to unveil itself.

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