The questions are inward, personal, difficult. Sky drawing is going on near Las Vegas. I was there not too long ago and they were advertising Budweiser. Las Vegas is doing beautifully. At night it sends out messages clear as anything I've ever seen.
Young artists search for powerful truth.
They don't necessarily trust their intellects to guide them in this search. Their distrust isn't due to ignorance, or even naivete. They are students, after all, and have the privilege of more freedom of thought than they might ever know again. The abstracts of love, ecstasy, pain, betrayal these are made at human scale. Though invisible and dematerial we acknowledge that they have content, they are important.