In September Grayson appeared on PBS together with the then-featured artist Audrey Code. When asked why he decided to dedicate so much of his time helping other artists, Grayson seemed like a mountain climber at a loss for an explanation. He circumvented the question by explaining what he looks for in art. He calls this kind of painting simply abstracted representations. A painting need that to survive.
Abstraction is the artist's way of transcending time, order and space.
Without it you have nothing. Victoria N. Alexander is author of the award-winning novel Smoking Hopes and is also a doctoral student at CUNY Graduate School. She heads up the Dactyl essay competitions. Aristotle's term for one kind of phenomenal pattern is a 'coincidental cause'. Darwin called certain phenomenal patterns 'whimsical' correlations.