Thursday, August 27, 2009

The Simulacrum

Drums and Roses, 2009.
oil on canvas, 18" x 14".

Fuck Plato, Nietzsche, and Baudrillard, distortion, truth, and the hyppereal. When I attempt to copy reality, or in this case depict a performative idea, the painting is subservient to the process of painting. The process of painting has a consecrative impact, a crystallization. My goal as a painter is that the copy, the depiction of reality, should resonate with an afterglow of discourse and meditation.

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