─ writingWriting is where the thinking happens out loud — the essays beneath the paintings and the engine. Part philosophy, part field report: what abstraction is, how it reaches what language can’t, and why a painting and a listening machine turn out to be one doorway, walked both ways.
On Abstraction — Essays from the
Studio and the Engine
The Man Who Walked In
I walked into a room of Rothkos as a particular person, and I do not remember leaving as the same man. This is an account of an afternoon I cannot fully account for — the numbness that was the opposite of absence, the door I walked out of, and the self I could not find waiting on the other side.