'(...) the doubling, twin images, fraudulence, copies, and so on. Doubling something is a good way to avoid narrative. You get so busy looking between the two images you don't...
"(...) the doubling, twin images, fraudulence, copies, and so on. Doubling something is a good way to avoid narrative. You get so busy looking between the two images you don't think anything else and what comes next is something paradoxical. Sean and I were trained at figurative leaning art schools; figurative realism, painting from life. We both wrestled with it, abandoned it and can't seem to get rid of it. We can both draw, which isn’t enough. Sean turned to mass media. He talked about working with images he didn't like. Abstraction doesn't hold an interest. There was another desire, I particularly liked the phrase he used –“to touch the world outside of painting.” (excerpts from "Artists talking (around) painting", a conversation between TR Ericsson and Sean Crossley, 2019)