Gearing up to start a Residency at 17 frost from Nov, thru Jan. Most of the work will be of a narrative and more or less figurative nature, so I’ve been drawing abstracts in the spirit of contrariness. I’ve never shown a lot of my abstract work, but I never stop making it. I guess I’m afraid that even the best abstract paintings (like Kline and DeKooning and Twombly) sort of end up as decorations/trophies for rich idiots. They can sort of drift into the background and be ignored. I guess you can ignore Mozart too, so it shouldn’t matter, but then I never wanted to be Mozart, I wanted to scream and rock. Still abstraction is my first love and my favorite work to look at or make
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