The art-object must transcend the self in the same way as the priest transcends the ordinary by donning his robes. In order for it to be visible as Art it must become Other than the mere substance from which it is made or from the ordinary concept with which it is associated.

I’m interested in the analysis of phenomena and the process of ‘signification’ by which we attribute meaning. What is obvious to one person is hidden to the next - function doesn’t necessarily follow form.
If I make an object which lacks an obvious purpose– a knife that doesn’t cut, a violin bow that plays with itself - it acquires a level of mystique that goes beyond ornament and this is its function. I make objects that have lost their way and yet remain as signs.

As we hurtle slowly towards the event-horizon of our culture in ever more self-referential spirals, I find myself, here at the edge of the world, picking through the scraps trying to piece together a purpose from the fragments. History is not in matter but in the mind.

I am interested in making art that is disguised, that sneaks in under the wire, that is, like the bread of the holy sacrament, not merely bread. I am interested in leading towards the fall, the faint, the loss of rational sense. In the moment one loses the boundaries of normal consciousness one is closest to the truth.
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Notes from a talk given at Camberwell College of Art, some years ago.