Look at the work.


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I always wanted to have that as my stand-alone artist's statement.

Clement Greenberg, an art critic said that if the artist has to explain his work, he did not want to hear it.

Two additional thoughts:

• When I finish a work, it is an answer to a question I posed to myself. (Think mathematician solving a problem.) It goes out into the world and I have no control of what happens to that piece. It is like children going off into the world and as a parent you cannot know that world.

• 911 affects all of us. In my case there was little call for art from before. Now, I am making new work reflecting my current experience and worldview.
  
  Michael Speaker