Rules and Exceptions

Here's a rule of thumb: wait twenty minutes after eating before going into the water. You'll cramp up if you do.

Now let's think of an exception to that rule. You see your five-year-old daughter is knocked down in some large waves and can't get her footing. You've just had a large pastrami on rye - definitely cramp-inducing fare if I ever saw any. Do you go in the water to help her? Of course you do! It's common sense, right?!

In the art world, we've lost all common sense. We're so intent on continually breaking all the rules that we've thrown out all the rules. Now we're even becoming disenchanted with the exceptions we embraced a moment ago and are ready to throw those out as well.

I predict that in two years, every new piece of artwork will be an empty white room with the same name...'Art'.