At times I think and at times I am.
We talk often about being in a media-saturated society, and we are surrounded by image streams. But it's nihilistic. There's a real randomness to all of it.
Stores are the same everywhere; small downtowns are done. Not just in America, but globally. You hear the same music on every station, all our building materials look the same, and all our clothes look the same. But I thought that it couldn't be that simple, because Arizona is not Minnesota. There is this other reality, which is a reality of landscape.
On a surface level, regionalism is gone, if we define regionalism as human culture. But, what if we define regionalism as something older than human culture?
Depiction can override truth the same way that memory can override experience.
I could name many women who travel or who work with America as a theme. I think it was more not being able to name canonical women, whose work is part of the American canon.
Painting is the chance to create a different space, or different way of picturing a literal stream of images.
Wyatt [ Walker] doesn't say that as much as Whitney Young does.
Don't stray from your Heart's intent.
If you're any kind of artist, you make a miraculous journey, and you come back and make some statements in shapes and colors of where you were.
That got thrown out of court are what got me thrown out of school.