Terry Winters and Mathematical Knots

Arcy Douglass: When I look at your work, I've always had this feeling that you're interested in both primitive and tribal art and also technological images generated by a computer. Your work feels like a hybrid, or blending of both of these worlds.

Terry Winters: I'm interested in accessing the irrational realms that so much tribal work describes, but using contemporary means to get there.

Arcy: Most tribal cultures do it so beautifully within their own languages, but if you're not within their culture, you can't access it in the same way.

Terry: Not in the same way, but those realms are here, now - they're still available. It's just a question of working very directly without nostalgia or sentiment - through our own culture.

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Arcy: When you're looking through your books of reference images that you assemble, what are the qualities you're looking for that make you want to explore them in a series of drawings or in a painting?

Terry: It's really about following my own curiosity, it's a very intuitive response to images and materials - a desire on my part to make poetic connections, or at least to somehow experience these things as expressive forces.

from a 2007 interview in PORT

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via Eater

Castle

The remains of someone’s homemade castle. You can make out the bricks and, if you look closely under the nearest flap, the edges of window complete with curtains.

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