The studio

...paint is very much like waste. That is so in both senses of the word "waste": some paint is like the refuse of the studio, and some is like human waste. In the studio it can feel as if paint is not just reminiscent of shit, but it is shit. The alchemists realized that excrement cannot be denied, that it has to be used. It is hopeless to pretend that oil painting does not continuously recall the worst miscarriages of digestion. Circulation is the esoteric discipline of recycling substances, especially the body's products, but also whatever is despised and overlooked, including the dusty waste material of the studio. Circulation is a metaphor, as well, for recycling the waste products of the mind, and somehow going on when nothing new can be found. Old discarded thoughts become new ones, and the work starts again.