I have a note on my phone from April 27, 2019. It’s an introduction by Carl Andre to one of Frank Stella’s shows. I don’t remember which. I go back to it whenever I need to remind myself that the only meaning making tools in art are aesthetic (and this should be obvious, though at times [these days] it doesn’t seem to be).
Happy New Year, AD! Carl Andre studied poetry at Kenyon on scholarship after Andover (where Frank Stella was a year ahead of him in school). He left Kenyon (that’s the polite story) and it was his trip to Stonehenge that guided him to his career as a Sculptor. This is all exposition that leads to this question: is photography your aesthetic art? That photo of you is the lovechild of Mary Ellen Mark meets Arbus. Brilliant. By the bye, I bought your NFT chapbook America Boys: priceless. You channel insights, humor and raw imaging deftly. Is it possible you’ll produce American Men next? I’d happily pre-order.
“We live in a time interested in eroding nuance, independent thought, and criticality that departs from cultural prescriptions.”
100% we do.
Feels like we’re being ushered into a beige cave sometimes which is fine if you are submissive and enjoy beige caves but not all of us do.
Happy New Year, AD! Carl Andre studied poetry at Kenyon on scholarship after Andover (where Frank Stella was a year ahead of him in school). He left Kenyon (that’s the polite story) and it was his trip to Stonehenge that guided him to his career as a Sculptor. This is all exposition that leads to this question: is photography your aesthetic art? That photo of you is the lovechild of Mary Ellen Mark meets Arbus. Brilliant. By the bye, I bought your NFT chapbook America Boys: priceless. You channel insights, humor and raw imaging deftly. Is it possible you’ll produce American Men next? I’d happily pre-order.
Gliding over all...
The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it. -- Joseph Campbell