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tripped to its essentials, art does not have to represent something else or only have validity based on elaborate interpretation. It can just be, standing on its own, without regard to method as long as the results invoke cognitive sensibility. Recognizing the importance of the observer in this equation, each of us becomes a curator continuously designing our own personal public exhibition.
“I have gone to considerable pains to eliminate from my work any trace of my own identity with the view to making the viewer the subject of the painting. … Thus the absence of a perceptible entity becomes the function of the viewer as opposed to the work itself. This is to say, his unmixed thought is content.” - John Dwyer McLaughlin
