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Very interesting. Now, changing directions, I know you’re a big fan
of Miyazaki. What’s your favorite movie of his? Favorite character?
Spirited Away and My Neighbor Totoro are my favorite movies, and Kiki from Kiki's Delivery Service, along with Princess Mononoke, are my favorite characters. Totoro would be the ultimate love. Miyazaki has a deep, true understanding.
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And you like Bjork as well, no? What do you think of her latest album Medulla?
Not much, to tell the truth. I like her Pleasure Is All Mine and Oceania, but for me they don't stand anywhere near Bachelorette, Hyperballad, or Isobel. I'd say Matthew Barney is a rotten influence and their Drawing Restraint was an absolute piece of bloody rubbish. Blame Yale and cerebral masturbation.
People should be burned at the stake for artist’s statements and high concepts. It's an evil, evil thing.
Hah! So what are your thoughts on academia? Fine art, cultural anthropology, and all of that…
Humanitarian sciences have a problem: getting caught up in words. Labels and comparative lists are all very nice, but descriptions of reality are not reality. I prefer to deal with actions and goals, the true magik of swimming with the tide, but in the direction you have set out.
But there will be very interesting developments in all fields of hard science. I think in another twenty years we are going to see a flourishing of new energy, medicine, and longevity. I think a drug or surgical procedure that allows one to stop reproductive body functions (not to be confused with sexual functions) would be great. After all, some figures say we spend up to twenty percent of our energy on reproductive functions. I'm sure a lot of people would gladly lose the reproductive facilities to enhance their body's peak performance. Needless to say, horny monkeys that they are, they would insist on maintaining their sexual attributes. How boring.
I ask the hard question: what do you do when you have the power to do anything? We can change history, and most are changing it by doing nothing. There are no innocent bystanders. We are surrounded by vast monuments to lost human potential. We have to step over and through ourselves to gain freedom. Most prefer to step inside and get caught up in broken reflections of the self. And that's a lot of hard work, since the self does not exist.
My work is really post-social realism. It deals with the thinking woman's dilemma: how do I define myself once I refuse to give society that power? Where do I go when I understand that material roads lead nowhere? I hope that wherever it is, there are sparrows singing there.
Post-social realism is an interesting concept.
Live your life like you're in charge, because you are.
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Let’s talk about some specific pieces. I really like Octopus.
What inspired this painting? I Love You also stands out in my mind.
There is a certain point in painting that you reach when things happen on their own. An image will form and flow out to canvas.
So both these pieces made themselves, after me working very hard to forget that I wanted to paint something and letting it happen. It's a question of birth, and art that is any good is independent of the maker. It's so funny to hear pompous little kids call themselves creative.
We are not creators, but with luck, we can make something that imitates nature
-- imitates self-replication and stand-alone balance. Humans will become creators
when they finally make independent "artificial" life. What comes
after it is the big and interesting question. I certainly hope that we don't
create god, because knowing how scared people are of the chaotic nature of
the universe, we just might.