I have always had a hard time absorbing the relationship between form and content in art. I want to make things that look pretty or shiny or weird, and I want people to see them and think, my that is something. I don’t always know if what I feel like making has a concept, or a grounding idea, or a meaning. A professor once told me something that stuck in my head… he has a way of making everything far more wordy than necessary, but it boiled down to “art is so cool because you get to decide that something should exist, and then make it happen.” I think that is the raddest idea in the whole world. Making art = playing God.

I’m currently attempting to boil a soup of brain garbage down into a coherent broth, adding salt and stirring not nearly often enough. There has been this current running through my mind about the way in which art either *is* or *isn’t* about physicality and form… Sol LeWitt said something about how once you have an idea for an artwork, you can just say it or write it down, thus bypassing the need to make anything at all. Simply put, the idea is sufficient for the point to be made, the focus narrowed, the concept exposed. In that sense there are two very different ideas about what art can or should be: a beautiful object (“beautiful” not in the sense of pretty), or an idea that in itself is an object. Therefore, object = objective. This is the final linear equation of simplicity.

I have an idea where words and images can be fused into an impression that does not lend itself to objectification. Poetry does something like this, if it’s good; words and images become movement, and the reader is not forced to see any singular component in isolation. Room will be left for breathing and meandering and sleuthing, because so much of what I find interesting is the way in which brains try so damn hard to connect one dot to another dot.

In form, landscape is a congregation of singular entities, composed synthetically by our minds into ground, horizon, sky and beyond. But what lies in between? These are the places I want to point to.