Anodyne
Saturday, June 23, 2007
 
Someone writes to ask about Free.

1. Found, accepted or claimed as opposed to made.

2. Probably 144, enough for a 12 x 12 grid.

3. Two states: a collage maquette, unique (graph paper; beeswax; oil paintstick; graphite; colored pencil; charcoal; coffee stains) and an editioned photograph. Both commodity objects, offered for sale.

4. There might also be two or three individual 5" x 7" or 4" x 6" images, out-takes from the larger collage. Also editioned photographs, also commodity objects, offered for sale.

5. I wanted to make a work very quickly, in pieces, in the gaps and breaks of my day. And to blast though the whole thing ASAP, a la Husker Du's Land Speed Record. I admire lots of art that takes time to make, but I don't think that time expended is neccessarily a guarantee of aesthetic quality. And I think that working quickly is, in some respects, to work "against the day": against the kids laboriously drawing abstract patterns or ultra-detailed landscapes with blue ballpoint pens; against rehearsal, "production shots" and library research; against art conducted as business, by control-freak MFAs pretending to be control-freak MBAs.
- posted by cjb @ 8:11 PM


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