Empty Centers

Colleen Asper

 

I had a friend by the studio who had recently changed his mind about the role of self-referential content in his own work. You must,

"assume the role," he had decided.

For him the role was that of artist. It frustrated him that I was not taking a position with my speech bubbles.

"Would you say yes or no?" he asked.

"To what?"

"It doesn't matter. If you had to pick one."

"It used to be all my motivations for making were contradictory, I didn't want the work to be this or that or this other thing and whatever was left was the work. Now I am trying to think from what I want the work to be. So maybe yes."[...]

Art: Colleen Asper

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