I never considered myself a performance artist.
AGNES DENESI didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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And I even like my own company. But when I’m alone, it’s to read or write. I’m in my thoughts. Mostly I’m learning.
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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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If I could relive my life, what I would do is work with scientists. But not one scientist, because they’re locked into their little specializations.
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One thing that’s paramount in my life is that I am alone. I’m a loner. And yet I have many friends and I don’t feel lonely.
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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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I studied how to mine a landfill and what to plant in it. It’s fascinating because you learn a new field each time.
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I went through about six or seven painting methods just to see what I didn’t want to do. And then I got off the wall, and went into the environment.
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My work is about helping humanity.
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I’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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And combining the two is creating this beautiful alliance between humanity and nature. That’s why my forests are mathematical expansion systems, all of them.
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I study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.
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Every one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
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What I did for my last act as a painter, if you call me a painter, was to photograph the weave of the canvas, and enlarge it and enlarge it until it became like a landscape.
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If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.
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