When I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”
AGNES DENESPublic art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years.
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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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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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Maybe that’s why I was left out of a lot of things, or why my work was not really understood, because there was no precedent for it.
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Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.
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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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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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My work is about helping humanity.
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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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Public art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years.
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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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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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