There's so much happenstance, so many accidents - stumbling into something and finding it interesting and living with it over time and building on it. It's okay to work from doubt. You need to be willing to not know. Ellen Gallagher More Quotes by Ellen Gallagher More Quotes From Ellen Gallagher This idea of repetition and revision is central to my working process-this idea of stacking and layering and building up densities and recoveries. Ellen Gallagher building-up recovery ideas Artists know that you can take an advertising sign and make something joyful with it. It's sometimes hard for people who don’t make things to understand labor and joy and attention and whimsy. Ellen Gallagher artist joy people The things that separate the planes are the incisions and the edges of the matter. Each separate layer of cutting or painting is visible and readable as an edge. Ellen Gallagher layers cutting matter At times we would have these whole cities that would take up rooms and stretch out all over the house. But they were also very abstract, like 'this piece of cardboard is a pool' and so forth. Ellen Gallagher cities house art I like radically cutting into the painting, inserting these paper birds, and then trying to figure out how to believe in it. Ellen Gallagher cutting bird believe The protocols of science fiction and the protocols of science are not separate-they'r e woven together. Ellen Gallagher woven together fiction In Westchester County — towns like Larchmont, Rye, Mamaroneck — the taxes are crazy high, younger people can't afford those taxes and are looking [ in Connecticut ] where you get more house and pay less taxes, but you're further from New York. Ellen Gallagher top-news I think it is hurting the luxury market, because people aren't trading up. Ellen Gallagher top-news My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive. But that's the swish in the work, I think. It's really important to me that the work isn't just sitting on top of something, that the materials are woven together - that they are recognisable and from the world. Ellen Gallagher me together work world I do think you can change the past and the present somehow. Even if something has already happened, it doesn't mean it's settled. Ellen Gallagher think you change past Regardless of your support, you need to make work. Ellen Gallagher your you support work When a writer makes something, it's theirs forever. That is the magic for me. Ellen Gallagher something me magic forever
