On Oct 28, 2020, at 7:07 PM, Mirena Rhee <****> wrote:
Hi B. great yeah my number is ******, shoot them all over please, are you gay? I have a lot of gay friends but I want to avoid flirting over email:)
You made some fantastic pictures so please send me more.
Anyway yeah sure I personally consider the material world a veil, it is a very compelling veil, but a veil nevertheless. My biggest nightmare are suburban houses with kitchens where people sit around surrounded by unnecessary things staring at objects like televisions, it is the most unfun thing.
My purpose as an artist is to bring into the material world things from the ideal world. Ideas are the most enduring thing in the history of humankind, where everything else except the pyramids has crumbled.
We're living in a place with a giant black hole in the middle, and we're surrounded by places with black holes in them. There's this anxiety in us humans about the material world and it is totally understandable, we operate in the material world but I am not sure our brains are firmly in the material, maybe they hold little bridges to what lies beyond, at least this is my experience as an artist.
Usually when I crave material things I usually attempt to obtain cash in some way, I try to have it a fun way. Recently I worked for the Census and got a chance to interview people in 30 million dollar condos and across the street at the public housing where in the corner there are all the lookouts for the drug lords in Chelsea. I also interviewed the homeless at soup kitchens, and finally they send me to rural Georgia in a tiny Toyota I drove on dirt roads interviewing people from all walks of life, from trailer parks to wealthy donors to the president..
I have zero respect for wealth and big houses but tremendous respect for the human experience.