Invision

And then again you are restricted to the proof again and again, of a few minuscule icons. For me the art was in the performance and all was stage and props, although I never really thought of it that way. One had to believe without believing. People coming into the shop were in the art work. At some point much later, I became merely the maintenance man and janitor, even if I still believed I was the artist.

By the same token if my art was what I said it was, so too the power that anything can be anything. My reality as the world I lived, as every sensation, feeling and act could be whatever I said it was. The vehicle of belief was correlation, or the consistent, scientific, observable correlations between cause and affect, maybe something like sympathetic magic. My mind could create matter. Out of formless clay came formed creation, which could have any value that anyone could be convinced to attribute. The idea was the wall again - matter is belief. Could - out of the creation of matter come happen-stance? Could matter be used to create change which would be assessed by correlation to real events? And could thought be used to create change and assessed in the same way?

In retrospect the pottery shop was a tiny factory from my factory days. The apartment upstairs was headquarters army, and my sculpture was travels with gnarly. The factory was basic, pots and dishes as ageless. I am a pot. This was a very definitive, limited and concrete evaluation. I am a very basic product that I produce, useful, utilitarian, needed and common to everyone.

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