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Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.40,0:00:12.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK: REAL BIOGRAPHY]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.10,0:00:22.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Houston, Texas, June 2002]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.84,0:00:27.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In this image here, we have Mound #1, "The Legend,"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.74,0:00:32.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being attacked by Vegans, who are the bad guys.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.21,0:00:36.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what they're doing is ripping his fur off
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.37,0:00:39.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and ripping into his skin.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.70,0:00:42.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they're going to take the mound meat
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.29,0:00:47.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and dump it down the toilet bowl, and convert it into tofu.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.15,0:00:52.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've just matured in a lot of ways,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.39,0:00:58.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the things that were... I felt were super important to me as a young guy,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.07,0:00:59.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're kind of trivial now.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.98,0:01:00.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK: ...AND THEN IT ALL CAME BACK TO ME]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.97,0:01:04.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, I think that's where this show is decidedly different than
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.69,0:01:06.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some of the past efforts.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.45,0:01:11.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If the conceptual material in the work isn't about Mounds or Vegans,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.16,0:01:13.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or some story that I've made up,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.75,0:01:16.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what's a story in my life that's a real story?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.79,0:01:19.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[James Cohan Gallery, November 2012]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.13,0:01:26.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The floor tile in the painting "The Den"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.28,0:01:32.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a motif that I grew up with in my grandmother's home in Paris, Texas.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.09,0:01:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My grandmother moved out of that house years ago,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.00,0:01:39.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I kind of forgot about it,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.95,0:01:42.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there weren't many pictures.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.11,0:01:47.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was up in Ithaca speaking at Cornell last year.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.72,0:01:50.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A graduate student had me over to his place
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.55,0:01:52.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we were listening to music, and I was like,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.98,0:01:54.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Hey, where's your restroom?"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.45,0:01:59.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he pointed my upstairs, and I went and was just knocked aback
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.98,0:02:04.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I looked down and on the floor was that tile,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.88,0:02:06.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which I hadn't seen in so long.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.40,0:02:08.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it was like a sensory punch.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.65,0:02:13.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I got out my phone and I started taking pictures of this guy's bathroom.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.32,0:02:16.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I learned how to draw on that floor.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.51,0:02:20.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She would throw, you know, paper and some crayons over there.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.38,0:02:24.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She would watch the 700 Club and sew on her quilts,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.55,0:02:28.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or gossip on the phone while I was down there, on that floor.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.18,0:02:32.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I was very close to it, and internalized it.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.87,0:02:37.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The paintings kind of have slowed down,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.75,0:02:40.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was just doing a lot of drawings and
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.15,0:02:42.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,kind of taking it easy and decompressing,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.78,0:02:45.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and kind of catching up with life.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.76,0:02:49.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I went through a break up.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.36,0:02:52.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like, there were births. There were deaths.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.86,0:02:58.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There were these very real things that caused me to reevaluate
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.78,0:03:02.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what's worthy of my time in the studio
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.05,0:03:04.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when time is such a limited thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.72,0:03:09.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I don't know how these things cosmically line up,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.32,0:03:13.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but that tile was revealed to me at the exact right time.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.59,0:03:17.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like, wow, I was looking for a new ground to stand on
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.49,0:03:19.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I found it in this tile,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.35,0:03:21.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that pattern is a truth.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.44,0:03:25.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like I could have easily not gone to the guy's house and seen it.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.35,0:03:38.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd already dealt with the Mounds and the Vegans for,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.72,0:03:42.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know, eight years, or nine years even.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.24,0:03:48.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was about this subculture that wanted to regain their humanity through color.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.93,0:03:51.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd done a ballet based around it.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.32,0:03:55.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, in some ways, seeing the characters come to life in front of me and dance,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.87,0:04:01.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was, like, "Okay, how much further do I want to go with this kind of characterization?"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.04,0:04:05.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The very personal things were in the old work,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.61,0:04:08.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was just really codified and it was, like, hidden.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.16,0:04:12.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe it's time to start dealing with real-life stuff.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.92,0:04:19.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that same kind of reflexive thing that was going on with the work before--
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.28,0:04:21.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was me and these codified characters--
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.81,0:04:24.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then became me and my real biography.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.18,0:04:28.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like, okay, deal with real stuff,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.58,0:04:32.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and, just see where that goes.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.44,0:04:35.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I'm figuring out new filters,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.29,0:04:37.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and ways to figure out what's important,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.82,0:04:39.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what do I follow up on.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.04,0:04:44.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, I know that most of it is going to start with the self,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.09,0:04:45.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's why the show is titled,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.61,0:04:47.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"...And Then It All Came Back to Me".
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.50,0:04:53.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This idea of self portraiture started to become the new character.