“Since the tubes of paint used by the artist are manufacture and ready made products we must conclude that all the paintings in the world are “redmades aided” and also works of assemblage.” Even though fundamentally, logically, and even to some extent pragmatically I agree with this, it does not mean that it annoys me any less. It feels like a rope now closing around my neck and telling me that no matter what I create it is merely an action of putting pieces together rather than genuine creation. It’s not like if I were to open a tube of paint an instruction manual would come spilling out along with all that goop. If it has been all this time I’ve not been paying attention. Maybe that’s my problem. In any case, the idea of altering something that is already pretty neutral is inherently what I do with my own digital work, so I can relate to the artist. But it’s hard to say which of us actually goes further with alteration, since theirs is physical and mine only exists as bits of data.
“This choice was based on a reaction of visual indifference with at the same time a total absence of good or bad taste…in fact a complete anesthesia”
-JTS