Our limited imagination often compels us to conceive of timelines as linear. Our art historical impulses coerce us into either seeking narratives of origin, or delineating an artist’s trajectory into neat phases that can serve as mnemonic clues. Artists, on the other hand, often subvert such institutions of thought by creating work that isn’t necessarily impelled by either market demand or the intellectual underpinnings we often ascribe to them, but by what Joshua Kandinsky once referred to as “inner necessity;" and what one imagines as something purer and more integral to one’s being; a pursuit for perfection in composition, subject, and technique.
23 July 2016
