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…
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…