WEBVTT

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
MATHEW RITCHIE: Modern art is a gift.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Take it or leave it, you know.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
It's like nobody's forcing it down your 
throat.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
All anyone is trying to do is try out some
new ideas,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
something different, something, you know..

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
just ringing the changes a little while.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
And I think there's something 
enormously ambitious

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
about that idea, that we're all trying 
to advance

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
or at least question what's going on,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
and I just think that's great.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Drawing is very, very central to the way 
that I work

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
because it can be blown up, taken apart,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
given to another person to execute,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
put into a computer,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
redrawn as if the computer had thought of 
your drawing

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
in the first place,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
shrunk back down to a tiny sketch,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
turned into a digital game.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
You can just keep on pushing it.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
It's like this infinite machine,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
which is very hard to do with almost 
anything else.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Like even with a painting--

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
a painting becomes a very static, fixed 
thing,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
but a drawing, you can make it three-
dimensional,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
you can make it flat, you can turn it into
a sphere.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
You can just keep pushing it and pushing 
it and pushing it,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
because all it is, is information.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
It's just a bunch of marks.