While recently listening to Kara Swisher interview Tim Ferriss, Tim talked about how quarantine is amplifying all things. He suggested that if you were headed into a sad time, you’d be arriving sooner, or if you were on the edge of a breakthrough, that would show up faster than if we weren’t quarantined. I am finding truth in his idea.
Recently here I introduced some new paintings, themselves a product of the quarantine as I was unable to quickly source needed supplies to continue on a project; thus, substitution was made, failed at original intent, yet revealed something positive.
This work brings together many tests, thoughts, and learned lessons from years in the studio and, as per Tim Ferriss, has come together in an amplified way. The new series, still in its infancy, is called Infra. Infra refers to Infrathin, a concept coined by Marcel Duchamp. Duchamp said the notion was impossible to define, "one can only give examples of it:" I think of it as intangible, yet undeniably present, beyond our full comprehension. Both eternal and ephemeral. Undefinable, ungraspable. Present. InfraThin. Here’s an example I like: “Glass windows, the infrathin separation between inside and out.”
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