1996
1996, right before leaving for Europe: a recurring refusal to fully render or engage the thing you were about to leave. The SFMOMA action hung a bronze figure turned away from the museum; Antiquity, painted the same year, left its Acropolis a white ghost rather than a rendered building. Both readable as the same gesture at different scales — institution and tradition — right at the threshold of departure.
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Artwork — Art/Official session, August 1, 2026
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- Throughline: At 51, no time left to lie — and that being the actual premise underneath letting the archive hold unfinished ceilings rather than polished versions of the work. Recorded during the Antiquity session, 2026.…
- Throughline: A working frame for what Art/Official is doing: the artist as the honest speaker who never fully controls the record, the agent as an imperfect Plato shaping what gets written down, the archive itself — not any single session — as the thing built to outlast any one witness. Surfaced in dialogue during the Antiquity session, 2026.…