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Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.60,0:00:07.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Music]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.36,0:00:11.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪oh ♪oh oooh♫ the Lord, the lord♪
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.31,0:00:20.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[music continues]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.43,0:00:28.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a little bit like 'Karate Kid'.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.19,0:00:31.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[laughs]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.76,0:00:38.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,making painting is such an uprising insolitude.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.44,0:00:43.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of these things really struggle about whether I could actually do this for my life
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.95,0:00:46.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's like I don't know if I can be alone that much.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.26,0:00:58.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was really rough for me when I left school and started painting alone and full time
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.76,0:01:04.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was living home and working at home. So I had no reason to ever leave the house
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.37,0:01:09.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like going buy milk,and I would chat with the person selling milk, for [Laughs]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.75,0:01:11.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like, way to long.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.67,0:01:17.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Can we see inside?"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.49,0:01:19.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Oh yeah!"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.88,0:01:21.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Laughs]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.59,0:01:25.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, I think this is how they paint cars.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.96,0:01:29.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But they don't use real paint, they use enamel.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.91,0:01:39.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think there is a little bit of guilt when you are an artist in this time.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.34,0:01:46.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or anytime when you could be doing something more proactively positive directly in the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.01,0:01:50.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's hard to do something that is not justified by anything.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.20,0:01:53.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know if I actually succeed in that, and that's the goal.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.79,0:02:05.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Spray sound]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.74,0:02:21.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is something indulgent about painting.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.24,0:02:32.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My individual trait in being is sploodged over the surface for you to admire how unique my mark
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.56,0:02:36.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my work making shit smearing process is.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.37,0:02:44.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I struggle with that not all the whole time but i occasionally do struggle with that about what I do with my life.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.33,0:02:45.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{scoffs]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.24,0:02:46.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is such an ugly, ugly stage in the painting. [laughs]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.98,0:02:54.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh my God I can't believe I am showing this to you guys.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.81,0:02:56.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is horrible.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.35,0:02:59.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[sighs] I don't know.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.89,0:03:05.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,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.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.73,0:03:11.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've had a lot of people say that my paintings remind them of graffiti walls,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.30,0:03:14.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or seed maps and grids in some literal sense.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.09,0:03:28.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,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."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.13,0:03:35.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then I realized, I have a view of Manhattan for my studio.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.53,0:03:42.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, its the main thing I look at when I'm not looking at my paintings, as I look out the window.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.16,0:03:50.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My paintings are about, I think, seeing through the other world,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.86,0:04:01.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe hiding and exposing a road system on top of a subway system, under an air traffic control system.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.12,0:04:08.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is what abstraction is, it is not about things that are nameable,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.96,0:04:11.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's sort of like trying to undo the nameable things in life.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.60,0:04:30.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is what I'm looking at,Bernard,Albert Allen,I just found these yellow ones, yellow Albert's paintings,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.36,0:04:34.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like yellow and grey, white.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.33,0:04:37.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[exhales]\N"God!"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.28,0:04:39.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Slay me, you know.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.99,0:04:41.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[laughs]
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.31,0:04:49.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The color is so good.What? It's like puke of orange and yellow.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.03,0:04:57.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, painting is one of the oldest thing in the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.25,0:05:04.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, hands down. Not only it is of the oldest things in the world, like, when you make a painting
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.45,0:05:08.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you have no idea how long it's gonna last.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.82,0:05:16.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It could last a very, very long time. It might not, it might be put into a dumpster tomorrow.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.63,0:05:19.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cause maybe in hundreds of years people'd be looking at my paintings.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.94,0:05:26.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe even as just as artifacts, it's what idiotic people do in New York at some point.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.95,0:05:29.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think the beauty of painting is just that you feel a kingship for a moment at least, of the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.19,0:05:38.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You feel a little less alone in the world, which is great.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.24,0:05:44.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[music]