Original artwork description:

64x84 cm | Filler, oak panel

The text on the work is the name of a song by Paul Simon. This work is related to #489 Here We Are Now, and if you read the two titles together, they misinterpret a verse in Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit.

Language is the oldest trick in the book. A sign is allowed to represent something from reality. The trick is that the symbols are also shaped by physical matter, so the difference between language and what it represents is initially unclear. We have difficulty distinguishing language from reality. What language actually does is hide the uninterpreted reality through its representation.

The artist's task is to break the spell. To point to the raw material by showing the ostensible nature of language. It does not exist in itself but creates an illusion of comprehensible reality by placing a layer of structure over the boundless, fluid state that is the primordial essence of matter.

It is an impossible task. But we try. Over and over again.

Materials used:

Filler (coarse and fine) in oak frame

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