on painting #1

After all the definitions of painting are exhausted ad nauseum, what is left is paint. Paint is paint. Beautiful paint - but only if it is oils - sexy, charged with history, rich and magical. Acrylics are the opposite and they stink (literally) like the plastic they are. Cheap. But some people dig them and that's fine, just keep them away from me.

A painting comes from nothing, perhaps sometimes it should have stayed nothing. There are a lot of paintings out there now, more than there has ever been. Painting is a part of our mass- culture. This can either dilute or enhance its heritage, and i am not sure which is winning right now.

Art-drones everywhere are pumping out the latest buzz style – remember not so long back DEER were in. They were everywhere. I saw a sculpture of one yesterday and it reminded me how big they were. Why? What makes people zoom in on an image and use it? What made deer popular and not some other animal?