O the Mark Twain Trio is wonderful! It is good they weren't swept away.
On 4/22/06 3:04 PM, "Kathy Forer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Apr 22, 2006, at 1:28 PM, Allan Revich wrote: > >> I remember when I was 20 or 21 I took a whole series, maybe more >> that a >> dozen paintings, each 4 feet by four feet, and burned them in the >> family >> fireplace. It felt good and I have never regretted it. > > There felt something vengeful about my act. Maybe spiteful. Confused > and angry. There was catharsis, but then it was as though it had > never happened, what was the point? Attention directed away from the > stuff to the stuff-maker, objects annulled, repudiated, renounced (in > Cecil's act) formally and publicly. But immediate regret, I had been > attached to said objects made when I was all of ten, but special, > hadn't really wanted to destroy them, just to no longer consider them > as important. > > I made these same time, but they didn't get swept away. I'm glad they > didn't. > http://kforer.com/gallery/?album=figurative_narrative&img=6 > It could be that I've pursued only archaeology since that first > regret, or it could be that's the basis of what I do, make, destroy, > extract narrative, recreate. > >
