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In
my early days, I'd send two slides to inquiring curators, the couch
in the river and the illuminated corn, (not the greatest pictures!)
along
with the following statement. "I don't document my work because
anyone behind the camera's eye would defeat the purpose of my work,
which is ritual. I therefore leave documentation to chance." I
would also say, "I want to live simply and chemical-free," and
end with, "I am aware that I may not get an NEA, (for which
the applications are expected to be top quality,) but that was OK,
that
actually, I had
received several unsolicited grants!
(Early ''bold' days, but my truth was the most important!)
"In 1917 Marcel Duchamp exhibited a urinal and called it art, although
at the time there wasn't any concept yet in place to explain such an
act of transgression. Today Mazeaud's project is equally startling because
it isn't based on a transgression of the aesthetic codes at all. It comes
from another integrating myth entirely: Compassion. Carlos Castaneda calls it
the " path with heart."
—Suzi Gablik, The Reenchantment of Art (1991)
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