Paper is a uniquely beautiful format, more so than the web, I think: you need to invest in the aesthetics.
My struggle has been to return painting to the tangible object, which is like returning the personality to touching and feeling the world around it, to offset the tendency to vagueness and abstraction. To remind people of practical activity, to suggest the sense and not to escape from the senses.
Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.
It is not sufficient that what one paints should be made visible. It must be made tangible.
They've found a way to privately, or within a small family group, share expressions, or other images, drawings, and then gain access to some of the world's great expressions and images and make them real, make them tangible.
Dance is low on the totem pole of the arts, because you're not left with a painting... a book that will stay there, a score you can read.
A record is kind of a piece of art itself, and it's such a tangible experience playing an LP end to end.
Art is not disposable. If you want it, you have to hold it and smell it and touch it and read the credits and enjoy it and put it on your wall.
For me, a record is valid when I actually hold the vinyl. Like, I've worked on the art for a while and I see the vinyl and I go "Ooh, it's an actual LP. How cool is that?" That's very sacred to me. You can't take that back, you know?
One of the reasons I love using LEGO bricks is because it makes the art very relatable and accessible; folks can connect with the art almost on a different level because they have played with it or their kids have played with it.
