Other Emphatic Caprices

 

“To paint, to write, to teach in the most dedicated sincere way is the most intimate affirmation of creative life we possess in these despairing years.” – Philip Guston

These pieces are not rational or objective documents of the fucked-up incidents roiling this era. Rather, I approach each unique piece with some degree of ritual—gathering pictures, creating the negatives, taking these awful scenes into the darkroom, aiming light, and anointing with chemicals to intentionally manifest objects meant to seize at least a small part of these vile realities, as if I could excise them from the world.