when I teach drawing I say your marks are unique and one of a kind. we like that. don’t fuck with that. aesthetics is something different. fuck with that.

Critique populists manipulate with fear. the search for certainty is the search for anxiety. religions and other cults do the same. criticism is abuse. critique is based on criteria: what were you going for, how close did you get, how does it compare to genius. how do we get you…

Pornography: the depiction of art in a sensational manner so as to arouse a quick intense emotional reaction the pornography of violence Acceptance is a skill I use to create the love of me/you/life/universe love is unconditional Critique/criteria is a skill I use to make art write artist books edit videos…

‘hand-eye coordination is genetic”, my uncle used his to become a famous Canadian safecracker and I used mine to gain entry to a christian conservative art school where you had to prove you have the hand-eye coordination of an olympic athlete, talent being god-given and a right of passage no …

I was 18 an orphan it was my birthday. My friends Dick Persons, an American naturalist and his wife Jane had invited me to stay in their family's teepees on Stony/Nakoda land in the East Kootenays. The sled dogs howled all the time. We ate a bear that had wandered…