warm
television in a
room comfortably
living
Things
believe in solutions.
are
have dreams of changing the world.
am in
and
the world
I
airplanes,
still
frighteningly similar to
think
I
my
up
life
human
same
It
4
it
[24th] birthday and
I
am
I
I
with chalk in Amsterdam
with similar
in
an airport
Rotterdam went
results). But,
rather be in America, even
In one year
Everyone says
my art has
it's
consumed and placed
if
I
to
and
to
would
mean
7 6
end
can do
can.
Drawing is
still
man and
the
in
it
of things have hap-
become
the situation
it is
is
that.
it is
keeping
anywhere
in the
is
that
I
funny, but
it is
to
make
show
it
some ways must be
Elvis.
feeling rather
is
Knowing
out of my hands.) is
this
at the Stedelijk fright-
go away once
have control of
they
over-hyped and
in
am now
in perspective.
if
really like.
always wanted or always dreamed
hard
I
to get
do admit
I
in the
world (and
It's
it is
the alternative? Elvis at the
my New
is
to
into a kind of limelight.
Things tend
However where I
it all
(And knowing when
was always the only thing)
back
Amsterdam. Drawing
it
know much about what
situation.
rather die than
into the world.
lot
probably should be keep-
Europe and propelled me
some ways
next.
A
I
especially Juan [Dubose].
into a "safe place" (history).
think the most important thing
and
I
Willem de Kooning's ugly new paintings
me what happens in the
I
be American. Everyone here seems as
mean, the
not sure where that dream came from, but I
learned from
brings together
It
also enjoyed
I
realize
does frighten me, but on the other hand: what
I
to that. I've spent is. I
in Brussels waiting for a flight
they don't
me
taken
kind of scary.
and
New York
miss
I
fine
made me
coming here made me even more glad
I
to death.
don't seem to be able to ever start to write. So today
sitting in
The show
ens me.
for as long as
have written anything down.
I
street
good.
up
live
Now I live in New York City, which I My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I
have been unable to write them.
York.
at
am scared
1982, IN BRUSSELS AIRPORT
,
ing a daily diary, however
Looking
I
that responsibility
many people as I can
for as
pened. So many things that
then
I
and automobiles, human beings are
has been since prehistoric times.
has been a long time since
would
However,
through magic.
It lives
MAY
as
do not
and studying the world.
artists' lives
much as I can
as
basically the
world.
what
to this point trying to find out just
studying other
draw
satellites
have a responsibility to
I
the world.
don't
I
I
In 1982, with telephones and radio, computers
beings 2,000 years ago.
think
artist. I
believe to be the center of the world. will
do not have dreams of saving
world news and video tape,
was born an
I
I
am a human being.
and
white America.
safe in middle-class
beyond my control and beyond comprehension.
it
that
The one
of.
I'm
has started. it is
up
to
thing (and
what comes out of me