1
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
[Music]

2
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
♪oh ♪oh oooh♫ the Lord, the lord♪

3
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
[music continues]

4
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
It's a little bit like 'Karate Kid'.

5
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
[laughs]

6
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
making painting is such an uprising insolitude.

7
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
One of these things really struggle about whether I could actually do this for my life

8
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
it's like I don't know if I can be alone that much.

9
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
It was really rough for me when I left school and started painting alone and full time

10
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
I was living home and working at home. So I had no reason to ever leave the house

11
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Like going buy milk,and I would chat with the person selling milk. [Laughs]

12
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
For way to long.

13
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
"Can we see inside?"

14
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
"Oh yeah!"

15
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
[Laughs]

16
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
I mean, I think this is how they paint cars.

17
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
depends on user and their layers and I one.

18
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Or anytime when you could be doing something more proactively positive directly in the world.

19
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
It's hard to do something that is not justified by anything.

20
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
I don't know if I actually succeed in that, and that's the goal.

21
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
[Spray sound]

22
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
There is something indulgent about painting.

23
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
My individual trait in being is sploodged over the surface for you to admire how unique my mark

24
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
my work making shit smearing process is.

25
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
I struggle with that not all the whole time but i occasionally do struggle with that about what I do with my life.

26
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
{scoffs]

27
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
It is such an ugly, ugly stage in the painting. [laughs]

28
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Oh my God I can't believe I am showing this to you guys.

29
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
This is horrible.

30
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
[sighs] I don't know.

31
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
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.

32
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
I've had a lot of people say that my paintings remind them of graffiti walls,

33
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
or seed maps and grids in some literal sense.

34
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
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."

35
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Then I realized, I have a view of Manhattan for my studio.

36
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
You know, its the main thing I look at when I'm not looking at my paintings, as I look out the window.

37
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
My paintings are about, I think, seeing through the other world,

38
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
maybe hiding and exposing a road system on top of a subway system, under an air traffic control system.

39
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
That is what abstraction is, it is not about things that are nameable,

40
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
it's sort of like trying to undo the nameable things in life.

41
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
This is what I'm looking at,Bernard,Albert Allen,I just found these yellow ones, yellow Albert's paintings,

42
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Like yellow and grey, white.

43
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
[exhales]
"God!"

44
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Slay me, you know.

45
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
[laughs]

46
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
The color is so good.What? It's a hue of orange and yellow.

47
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
You know, painting is one of the oldest thing in the world.

48
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
I mean, hands down. No, no wait, is it one of the oldest things in the world, like, when you make a painting

49
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
you have no idea how long it's gonna last.

50
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
It could last a very, very long time. It might not, it might be put into a dumpster tomorrow.

51
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Cause maybe in hundreds of years people'd be looking at my paintings.

52
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Maybe even as just as artifacts, it's what idiotic people do in New York at some point.

53
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
I think the beauty of painting is just that you feel a kingship for a moment at least, of the world.

54
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
You feel a little less alone in the world, which is great.

55
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
[music]