In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.
I'm interested in the space between the viewer and the surface of the painting - the forms and the way they work in their surroundings. I'm interested in how they react to a room.
There were a series of moments when I decided that art was important, and it was an important vehicle for me to express my interest in spaces.
It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
I think words come between the spectator and the picture.
I need space between me and the audience - and the more space the better.
Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.
Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
You were told how much space so it was a matter of whether you could send in two paintings or three paintings, you know, pending where the show was being held. You did submit work to be accepted. Once you were accepted that was it. You did your own selection of what went in.