People don’t hurt what they love.
AGNES DENESI never considered myself a performance artist.
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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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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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I’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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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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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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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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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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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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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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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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There are an infinite number of patterns, some of which are known; those still unknown hold the key to unresolved enigmas and paradoxes.
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