9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Music] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 ♪oh ♪oh oooh♫ the Lord, the lord♪ 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [music continues] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 It's a little bit like 'Karate Kid'. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [laughs] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 making painting is such an uprising insolitude. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 One of these things really struggle about whether I could actually do this for my life 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 it's like I don't know if I can be alone that much. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 It was really rough for me when I left school and started painting alone and full time 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I was living home and working at home. So I had no reason to ever leave the house 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Like going buy milk,and I would chat with the person selling milk. [Laughs] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 For way to long. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 "Can we see inside?" 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 "Oh yeah!" 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Laughs] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I mean, I think this is how they paint cars. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 depends on user and their layers and I one. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Or anytime when you could be doing something more proactively positive directly in the world. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 It's hard to do something that is not justified by anything. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I don't know if I actually succeed in that, and that's the goal. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Spray sound] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 There is something indulgent about painting. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 My individual trait in being is sploodged over the surface for you to admire how unique my mark 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 my work making shit smearing process is. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I struggle with that not all the whole time but i occasionally do struggle with that about what I do with my life. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 {scoffs] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 It is such an ugly, ugly stage in the painting. [laughs] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Oh my God I can't believe I am showing this to you guys. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 This is horrible. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [sighs] I don't know. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I think I am going to have to put more purple down. i don't like how it looks. it looks like a squid in front of a building. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I've had a lot of people say that my paintings remind them of graffiti walls, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 or seed maps and grids in some literal sense. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 At first when people said you seem to be inspired bu the city, I'm like: "No, it's so corny, and that's not true." 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Then I realized, I have a view of Manhattan for my studio. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 You know, its the main thing I look at when I'm not looking at my paintings, as I look out the window. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 My paintings are about, I think, seeing through the other world, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 maybe hiding and exposing a road system on top of a subway system, under an air traffic control system. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 That is what abstraction is, it is not about things that are nameable, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 it's sort of like trying to undo the nameable things in life. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 This is what I'm looking at,Bernard,Albert Allen,I just found these yellow ones, yellow Albert's paintings, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Like yellow and grey, white. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [exhales][br]"God!" 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Slay me, you know. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [laughs] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The color is so good.What? It's a hue of orange and yellow. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 You know, painting is one of the oldest thing in the world. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I mean, hands down. No, no wait, is it one of the oldest things in the world, like, when you make a painting 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 you have no idea how long it's gonna last. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 It could last a very, very long time. It might not, it might be put into a dumpster tomorrow. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Cause maybe in hundreds of years people'd be looking at my paintings. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Maybe even as just as artifacts, it's what idiotic people do in New York at some point. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I think the beauty of painting is just that you feel a kingship for a moment at least, of the world. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 You feel a little less alone in the world, which is great. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [music]