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Pain & Sympathy

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[Choral music and sound of oxygen mask]

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History of the Main Complaint

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[choral music]

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In the activity of making work

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there's a sense that if you spend a day

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or two days drawing

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an object or an image

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there is a sympathy toward that object,

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embodied in the human labor of making the drawing

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and for me there is something in the dedication

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to the image whether it's Jericho painting guillotined heads

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it's a shocking image

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but there is something about the hours

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of physically studying those heads and painting them

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that becomes a compassionate act for me

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even though on the one hand you can say

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that is very cold bloodedly and ghoulishly looking at

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disaster or using other peoples’ pain

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as raw material for the work.

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[sound of baseball bat hitting]

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I mean naturally every artist does this

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use other peoples pain as well as their own as raw material

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so there is a kind of, if not a vampirishness

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certainly an appropriation of other people’s distress

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in the activity of being a writer or an artist.

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But there is also something in the activity of both

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contemplating, depicting, and spending the time with it

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which I hope, as an artist, redeems the activity

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from one of simply exploitation and abuse.

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