When Hans Hofmann asked Jackson Pollock why he did not work more from nature, Pollock is said to have replied, “I am nature.”
Who doesn’t feel the same?
It’s why we aspire to push up daisies or be scattered on the water as ashy food for fish.
Heidi Anderson, Grey Face
Watercolor on paper
9″ x 15″ 2007
Eric Yahnker, Bummed Bouquet, Graphite on paper, 52.5″ x 65″ 2009 (From Playboys and Killjoys at Ambach & Rice)
Barbara Noah, Earth As Bowling Ball II, Oil on photo emulsion on linen, 72″ x 72″
From Happy Hour installation
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