Cliffs Notes

The professionalization of the arts is its own death,

Everyone is trying to get in when they ought to get the fuck out,

Homonormative art is the new monkey pox,

Sophomore figurative painting is a badge of honor amongst socially progressive, fiscally conservative collectors,

The mechanisms of support in late stage capitalism promotes overpriced hotel art.

Good taste is the dregs of white supremacy,

Artists using Instagram mimetic to celebrity culture is part of the problem,

Nimble fingers of the barely legal toil away on Ferrari art,

Self proclaimed geniuses are usually bad house keepers among other things,

I quit my nine to five so that I could work twenty four / seven,

Art is a last resort of survival,

It is a refuge for punks and freaks, 

The rewards of painting are not realized for thirty years,

Even the most dejected artist is optimistic in the face of failure,

There are many obstacles in a studio practice,

The act of returning to making is a gesture of hope,

Hope is the ability to see a barrier for what it is and not be succumbed by it,

Solipsistic naval gazing can result in your head  permanently getting stuck up your ass,

Benevolent dictators lurk in the calcified halls of academia,

There are many kinds of bridge trolls,

Madame Bovary will wreak interpersonal havoc on working class pi/eers,

There’s only more snow at the top of the mountain and there’s only one way down,

Embracing the unknown requires an adventurous spirit,

This is key to expanding one’s context.

Fool me once, fool me twice, the reason PhDs do not exist in the arts.

Wells Chandler / September 2022