He subsequently withdrew in dismay because of the seemingly impossible procedures involved. At the time, Darling's main motive for running was to point out to American elementary school teachers that they should stop telling schoolchildren that anyone can grow up to be president, because it's no longer so. It's not our vote that elects the president. It's a handful of campaign finance lawyers who decide. OVER THE course of an artistic career that began after art school in the late '60s, Darling has been awarded several grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Darling asks, eyes twinkling behind amber-tinted glasses.
I'm interested to see where this goes from here. You was to be the title of a book that Darling never wrote that summed up his investigation of 20th-century American culture. Darling has recognized political campaigning as an art form, and he uses video, buttons, paperwork, and humor to make his points. Like biology, it keeps changing. Art is not made, it's willed.