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I work in response to the limitations of any situation and in relationship to what's possible.

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In a park, you are not working with studio materials or a flat piece of paper. You have grass and the people and the city and the daylight.

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Pictures often sit inside of pictures, but the edges of pictures and objects are rarely subjected to serious challenge; we are presented with distinct, whole pictures and objects.

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I am more interested in asking questions about the edges of things and thoughts. So the objects I use are not initially the subjects of the work; they are its ground.

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Focused attention necessarily has an edge, but as focus changes, the edge shifts.

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The very formal, beautiful, composed order that I make with paint and color is freighted with objects, but like leaves falling from a tree onto a lawnmower below, the edges of this 'thing' have a certain serendipity.

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My idea is to fill an intersection with color. That will include the road and the sidewalk and up the building, so there's a cubic volume of color in the intersection wedged between four corners and four buildings.

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It doesn't matter what I use. It can be anything. What's interesting is how what I'm doing meets with the stuff I use.

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I think what kids do is play.

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My work participates in that really quick and easy and inexpensive material that's part of our culture. In that way, my work engages the means of production that we live with, even while it's classical and embodies some things from a very long time ago.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: Unknown

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