My assistant and collaborator holds into position the double-canvas (146 cm x 114 cm x 15 cm) nearing completion, assembled rip by rip, scrap by scrap over the course of seven months. The familiar premise: the image-text cohesion in the world helps to support or generate the symbolic reality which forms the ideological battlegrounds of everyday life. We took a stack of literature from art and culture exhibitions accumulated over the last 5-7 years and separated the pamphlet materials by two strokes: first, pictures from words; second, images from themselves and texts from themselves torn into indiscernible, illegible fragments. The scraps of pictures and words were separated in stripes onto different canvases more or less consistently as if to break the mutually compensatory bonds and mutually reinforcing meanings between the two mediums. Neither canvas faces the other, while the result bestows some beauty upon the incoherence. The familiar conclusion: the best way to appreciate art is not to explain it but at least to make art out of the explanations.
