The Word Seminar, Visual studies, UC Berkeley/Fall 2007. The Autographic Mark: Looking, Discussing, Understanding..."Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?"
Friday, October 26, 2007
New York
"...There was no detail. Night came and even the sharp edged contours melted. A million lights perforated the huge masses - switching, flickering - a light modulation dissolving solid form...I got drunk - from seeing."
Eleanor--I hereby encourage you--to be Eleanor--which is easy to say, but maybe it's also easy to do? Show us the valid forks in the road (oyyy, terribly mixed metaphor.)
Guston made a whole decade of really painful paintings ('51-'61 or so)--out of which emerged, finally, the late work...
I know it's partly ego (force of personality) and am glad you don't rely on this...
...so again, lets go back to...encouragement (maybe meant quite literally)...
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Eleanor--I hereby encourage you--to be Eleanor--which is easy to say, but maybe it's also easy to do? Show us the valid forks in the road (oyyy, terribly mixed metaphor.)
Guston made a whole decade of really painful paintings ('51-'61 or so)--out of which emerged, finally, the late work...
I know it's partly ego (force of personality) and am glad you don't rely on this...
...so again, lets go back to...encouragement (maybe meant quite literally)...
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