Most art or I should say all art is a stream of conscientiousness, sometimes it gathers itself by meeting a subject and determining what they are to you. I then make a mask that I think adds to that subject and allow the improvisation to begin. My vision usually kicks in about this time as to what I need to fulfill my sense of anxiety. It usually doesn't go on for more that 3 hours. That's what it takes to exhaust both of us and our need to express ourselves.
The only part of this process that is pre-visualized (... that sounds rather commercial, doesn't it) is the "landscape that the subject will live in for the day". It may appear to be done in a studio, but the time of day is important and the walls are important and the floor is important and so on. Not to mention the mindset of both parties when they get together.
I happen to
relate to Marcel Duchamp in many ways but mostly about being in the
moment and expressing the obvious.
The process is important to me first, that is to say, working through
and having that moment of realization of how
this moment really feels and how can I express it. This process
does make it hard to
communicate to the subject in a conventional way, so maybe in a very
odd way I am a surrealist. I don't feel like
a surrealist, but none of them did. "I am who I am".
This project was 10 years of my life and
I am exhausted. Once my head clears I can start to think of the
next scene of this play. I don't ever
what to know how it ends. This is true art to me. The last things
I do will not necessarily be my best
work. Interesting concept: The last piece of art that you
do will be your worst!