Both qualities need to be there for the work to be interesting. You can go into a room and see the varied work of an artist, but you can tell by the rhythms and the personal handwriting and this relates closely to music that the work is still all by that particular artist. Net II , 1999. I think it s interesting the way you had to deal with Dan Flavin s work in the opening exhibition at the Walker in Minnesota, where the light in his piece was utterly changing the color and texture of yours in the same space, and how that really changed the work permanently in the end. It would have been a problem for me if I had decided I wasn t going to work with it.
Artists don t create problems, they work through the situation.
They recognize so-called problems, but the idea of the artist is to basically lead the way for the viewer to understand the spatial aspect as it is suggested between the object and the environment or the architectural situation. The experience of seeing or feeling, literally, the underwater anti-gravity, the element of floating. We ve all experienced this in the womb, so this is part of my experience in art. Another one would be the phenomenon of how water or rocks or anything is imprinted. I m very interested in the idea of the gestalt what someone might recognize in the whole area of movement or the image being recognized.