The artist denounced repetition. When asked why, said if repeating the winner was a principle of advertising, of branding, art should do the opposite. The artist, upon leaving one harbor, would not return. They folded each canvas as they painted, each fold rendering the form into something it had not been before. For this reason, the artist had to admit, no one would ever be able to describe what they were doing until the doing was done.
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Inspired by and with borrowed phrases from an interview with French painter Noël Dolla by Gwenaël Kerlidou in the latest issue of BOMB.
Kind of like life, although most humans don’t recognize we’ve left one harbor in our frenetic rendering of the last.