gave up painting/drawing , wanted to tell stories
does story telling have a place in art?
Decided to make films. not mainstream narrative films but not experimental artsy film either.
missed making pictures more and more.
Cannot avoid the past, it’s not finished with us, we’re not finished with it, we cannot escape the past so we should confront it, bluntly and head on
went to the trump rally, drawing more focused way to record it ,
history painting, cardboard - protest
from news photos, past artist work, remembering art history classes, image of bad government.
Manet execution of emperor maximillian (from news photos) Kerry James Marshall
How did the big events impact ordinary people ? >>> led to the centre project.
dreams, memories, stories, warped time, interested in not just photographic evidence.
help make something visible for someone.
When you’re locked up somewhere you’re mentally wanting to go somewhere else.
everything I do has to be relevant in the world today. Not interested in using archival images as evidence / historical closure. in fact the opposite. Roy Cohn / trump
