Dennis Hollingsworth

Patrimonio

After a studio visit, a friend sent me this video.

I sent him this letter of thanks:

I awoke in the middle of the night, thinking about the AK video. What fortune that he was born in the ashes of the Second World War! What genius he had for transgression in touching the most radioactive taboo! What a rich mine that he had to plunder with his childhood playground of ruins!

Comparisons are inevitable.

It sets me off thinking about my particular historical circumstances (*1), of my own opportunity for transgression (*2), and exactly what my own patrimony of childhood affords for mining (*3).

*1. Coming of age in the twilight of postmodernism

*2. The temerity to resurrect painting from its postmodern tomb

*3. A military brat living abroad in the 60's

I lie awake in these wee hours, wondering if my work is the proper resolution for the variables of this equation?

-Dennis