Jpg. Photo of corner of portrait wall from Twitter feed Walker Art Center January 26, 2012
Tired but I think it's something spectacular and still grounded in our hard times , it's taking nothing
and making something. Gold from dross matter, it's the sort of alchemy that is often practiced in hopes
of food money. Betsy Carpenter (the curator designing my exhibition at WAC ) has included a thesis
I wrote in California in 1968. When I say included I mean literally the document itself, a typescript on
velum paper . It's about a lot of things about Ad Reinhardt about art mostly about art. I wonder how
many patrons will read it? But it is beautiful as an object like a shroud or a Holy book.
The installation is very pretty and diverse in form and content though the pony paintings are framed
by pony heads on LPs. Just think 3rd world, India - a style of decorative excess. I make you a pie?
I read about Lugwig Wittgenstein teaching math to children (in the UK) the humility of this dear man was
humbling. Someone searching for a more precise apoditic language for science for logical structures regards meaning.
Wittgenstein understood that God's silence was his only voice.
If you never hear from someone you assume they are dead.
Wittgenstein helped me when I was most depressed and suicidal that death was absolute, that the promises
to a child of eternal life were said to help the child sleep and as Wittgenstein wrote -What are we to make of this eternal life?
how is it less of a riddle than the life we lead now? Is the words the expressions we associate with metaphysics that have
no connection to reality! Life is it, our biological existence is all we know . And art well it maybe the only other path towards
creating a dream that comes in on time and under budget!