Wednesday, April 30, 2008

How to get inside an artwork

1. Treat it like a stimulating conversation, that is mutually validating of intelligence, humour, ironically drawn bathos and a refined sense of the absurd.

2. Try and convince yourself that the creative experience is shared, that the conceptual foundations of the work, at least, support you and the work's author equally.

3. Imagine the work to be your better self, to whom you can confide lots of little lies and delusions.

4. Arse first.

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