Any tool you use is legitimate. The key to the tool is whether it has the dimensions to deal with what have become your questions. I consider art as a thought form more than anything else.7
My art has never been about ideas. . . . My interest in art has never been about abstraction; it has always been about experience. . . . My pieces were never meant to be dealt with intellectually as ideas, but to be considered experientially.8
There is an essential kind of knowing, which comes from a purely phenomenological basis.9
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Posted by Stubbornson at March 30, 2006 08:04 PM