And also, it's well-done. He's a Paganini in terms of his hand. There's a lot of response to his work because it's a giving work. But it's been taking forever, and I wasn't happy with it. Now I'm going to go back to doing collage stuff.
Direct painting gets really old after six months.
And if there's anything he won't put up with professionally, it's boredom. In the spring of 1995 came the Whitney Biennial, in which he was the youngest artist represented and thus the focus of enormous interest. The flow of his imaginative energy seems unending. It doesn't help. I could do it by rote, but the work would suffer.