Faucet Repair

7 April 2025

In my studio looking at a possibly resolved painting that I'm calling Bag for now. Started from seeing a plastic bag on the street in Camberwell as an inviting void. I like how Yena described the piece's core contrast as “filling in versus filling out”—that feels true. Think it is also about solidity coexisting with thinness and transparency and warm against cool; the little asteroid shape is darting into the cold dark space from the angle that the sun fell on the bag. Like Lying in bed, there's something about concealment and enclosure too, the expansive view of the optically small. And its composition feels like it wiggles within the container of the canvas without being overly aware of its edges. Kind of looks like a uvula too.

5 April 2025

A fluid list...

Teachers

Joe Brainard, Jasper Johns, Aubrey Levinthal, Seth Becker, Co Westerik, Merlin James, Piero, Catherine Murphy is in the house, Morris Graves, Lois Dodd, Wilhelm Sasnal, Raymond Saunders, Hannah Höch, Frank Moore, Chronis Botsoglou, Sibylle Ruppert, Ruba Nadar, Daumier, Carol Rhodes, Dürer, Serge Charchoune, Jack Whitten, Trisha Donnelly, James Castle, Samuel Hindolo, Toby Rainbird, Rosemarie Trockel, Degas is in the house, Munch, Rita Fernández, R. B. Kitaj, Rob Calvert, Richard Artschwager, Scarlett Budden, Tristan Unrau, Courbet, Luchita Hurtado, Olivia van Kuiken, Sebastián Espejo, Noah Davis, Allegra Harvard, Nicholas Bierk, Todd Bienvenu, Sigmar Polke, Georgia O’Keeffe, Forrest Bess, Gabe Duarte, Goya, Ray Johnson, Rebecca Willing, Ivan Seal, Gareth Cadwallader, Adolf Wölfli, Jared Buckhiester, Dash Snow, Nat Faulkner, Anya Rosen, Martin Wong, Wayne Thiebaud, Andrew Cranston, Raina Seung Eun Jung, Mark Morrisroe, Neo Rauch, Ida Applebroog, Paul Landacre, Albert York, Danny Leyland, Clarence Holbrook Carter, David Hammons, Mamma Andersson, Gavin Gleeson, Rafael Delacruz, Betye Saar, David Byrd, Shannon Cartier Lucy, Adrian Morris, Robert Pollard, Kurt Schwitters, Ken Price, Peter Doig, Matthew Gilbert, Josef Albers, Eric Timothy Carlson is in the house yeah, Ken Kiff, Duchamp, Paul Thek, Graham Sutherland, Hockney, Velázquez, Jonathan Tignor, Victor Willing, Leroy Winter, Shel Silverstein, Max Ernst, Clara Nulty, Lee Lozano, Joel Wyllie, Jack Hilton, Philip Guston, Eva Dixon, Ed Ruscha, Marisol, Enrico David, Gregory Gillespie, Cézanne, Samantha Jackson, Sargent, Kent O’Connor, Joel Seow, Ben Shahn, Brett Bigbee, Félix Vallotton, Paul Klee…