Public art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years.
AGNES DENESPublic art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years.
AGNES DENESAnd combining the two is creating this beautiful alliance between humanity and nature. That’s why my forests are mathematical expansion systems, all of them.
AGNES DENESOne 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.
AGNES DENESIf 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.
AGNES DENESPeople have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
AGNES DENESI didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
AGNES DENESSomething to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
AGNES DENESI never considered myself a performance artist.
AGNES DENESI study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.
AGNES DENESI’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
AGNES DENESI’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
AGNES DENESI hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.
AGNES DENESThere are an infinite number of patterns, some of which are known; those still unknown hold the key to unresolved enigmas and paradoxes.
AGNES DENESThinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
AGNES DENESAnd 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.
AGNES DENESEvery one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
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