Samsa: answers and questions for you

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Posted by Bojangles on June 29, 1997 at 11:39:31:

fuck yea, sometimes, not all the time, but sometimes, fuck yea
Samsa, doesn't it piss you the fuck off when it is so easy for Farrah Fawcett (the skanky Charlie's Angel chic who thinks she's hot as shit at fifty, when big deal it's plastic!) to have her "work" seen. I mean I doubt anyone has respect for it, but still, everyone knows. It would be hard as fuck for me, Even though I have substance.
And Samsa, about substance, what do you think about work that's all about the idea, no work put into it? Lazy? Eh? Eh?
See, Samsa, I don't necesarily have to put alot of work into my work, although I usually do, actually I fluctuate from five hour paintings, to months paintings. Anyway, all I'm interested in is the image. I have tried to make paintings with all this fucked up meaning behind it but it doesn't come out the way I feel unless I DON'T think about it. And I think the most beautiful paintings I've done are the ones with no meaning whatsoever. They were just an image I was drawn to so I painted it in my own way. I do it very meditatively, so they come out with a strong emotional aspect of however I felt in that mediation, but it's not emotion of specific feelings, but of extreme warmth, love comfort, coolness, serenity, etc. I haven't really tried anything on the dark side of the force. I don't even want to try to meditate with the dark side. Does this make me less of an artist in the elitists eyes? I hate elitism, but I am curious. What do you think?