I study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.
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.
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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 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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Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.
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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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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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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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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 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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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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My work is about helping humanity.
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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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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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I hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.
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