Sculpture

"What is art?  Just self-indulgence.  You give way to it.  It's a vice.  Prison is too good for artists - they ought to be rolled down Primrose Hill in a barrel full of broken bottles once a week and twice on public holidays, to teach them where they get off"

Joyce Cary, The Horse's Mouth, 1944

"Whether a urinal signed R. Mutt (1917) or an objet trouve, any object can be elevated to the status of art.  The artist defines the object in such a way that it's future can only lie in a museum.  Since Duchamp the artist is author of a definition.  Two facts will be brought in focus here: that in the beginning Duchamp's iniative was aimed at destabilizing the power of juries and schools and that today - having become a mere shadow of itself - it dominates an entire area of contemporary art, supported by collectors and dealers"

Marcel Broodthaers, Signature and Style, Flash Art, Jan/Feb, 2011

These photographs really don't do justice to the originals. 

The originals were generally terrible - especially the one made from milk cartons and insulating tape.  

That one was really awful. 

I had great fun making all of them.

"Guston remembers a weekend at this time when he and Tomlin visited Pollock in Springs while Lee was away.  It was a good weekend.  Jackson's mood was gentle, even on the second night when Guston and Tomlin did most of the talking.  However, at some point in the course of their discussion of Renaissance art, Jackson picked up a very large nail and drove it into the living room floor,  saying, 'Damn it, that's art."

B. H. Friedman, Jackson Pollock: Energy Made Visible, 1973