Take Two

(Heidi Pollard, Heart, 2011, oil on canvas, 51" x 40")

On Monday I was a very good student, a very good girl, and wrote a mostly serious summary of Amy Sillman’s article in the summer issue of Artforum. It took forever. But in actuality it’s not very accurate: the spirit is missing.

Today, I’m just going to toss out a list of words that can release AbExII (and I). These words are all from Sillman’s article and could become rhetoric, but let’s hope not.

Uncertainty
Praxis of doubt
Sloppy
Do-it-yourselfers
Refuseniks
Awkwardness
Handmade
Throw shit down
Mess shit up
Dialectical interrogations
If you want the body to lead the mind
Fat paintbrushes
Buckets
Phenomenology
Spills
Reclamation
Reversal of fortune
Springboard
Undone
Reinvigorated
Vulgar
Queered
Recomplicating
Embodies
Double-edged challenge
Gestural
Carnal
Improvisational
Orchid-lavender paint
Discarded materialist excess
Fertile
Sensuous
Repellent aggression
Promiscuous
Unessentialized
Inquisitiveness
Risk of actual delight
Redoing
Formalist rap
Malleability
Funny
Like a big old straight guy who had gone gay