"A Visual Habitat for Narratives: An Interview with Artist Joann Harrah" in Anti-Heroin Chic

To read the interview click here.

Duane Michals: "Dr. Heisenberg’s Magic Mirror of Uncertainty" 1998

Duane Michals, Dr. Heisenberg’s Magic Mirror of Uncertainty, 19.8×24.7 cm (ea), 1998

Handwriting below photographs:

• “Odette can never be sure with any certainty which reflection of herself she will see in the mirror.”
• "The act of looking in the mirror affects what the image will be."
• “Uncertainty permits anything and everything”.

Werner Heisenberg, The Uncertainty Principle and Quantum Mechanics, from the American Institute of Physics:

http://www.aip.org/history/heisenberg/p08.htm

I'm not speaking in hyperbole when I say I've been a fan of Duane Michals for a long time. I

Sol LeWitt: "Sentences on Conceptual Art"

I've kept the following list of sentences printed on a sheet of paper for years, sometimes referring to it for confirmation or perhaps even to take a stand firmly opposed to one of the items listed. It's been a fantastic tool to either bring self-awareness or remind one of things learned long ago and forgotten.

Since first seeing this list I've found myself friends with people who knew Sol LeWitt. They have all said something about him having been intelligent and a kind person. I suppose that's true.

Sentences on Conceptual Art
by Sol LeWitt

1. Conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.
2. Rational judgements repeat rational judgements.
3. Irrational judgements lead to new experience.
4. Formal art is essentially rational.
5. Irrational thoughts should be followed absolutely and logically.
6. If the artist changes his mind midway through the execution of the piece he compromises the result and repeats past results.
7. The artist's will is secondary to the process he initiates from idea to completion. His wilfulness may only be ego.
8. When words such as painting and sculpture are used, they connote a whole tradition and imply a consequent acceptance of this tradition, thus placing limitations on the artist who would be reluctant to make art that goes beyond the limitations.