I saw this today. I like that the work may not necessarily have been over-thought during its making and that you do not need to over-analyse it to find it interesting ("interesting" meaning exactly that, and not just "aesthetically pleasing").
I want to make work that does not rely on being unnecessarily complicated. I don't want complicated secret meanings that will never really make a difference to the work unless they are spelled out (either in the work or outside of it). I think a couple of the ideas I was having before could lend themselves well to this. I liked the idea of giving "non-artists" gallery space to "use" or "exploit" or "waste" or do whatever else they felt like with as much or as little effort or thought as they wanted (because: is gallery space "important" and is anyone's "art" really "less important"? and what would they choose to do? it could be interesting). However I think I'm going to get someone to think of something for me to create. It can be something important to them or a random doodle or something crude, anything, and I'll immortalise it in stone or oil paint or something like that. I was going to carve something, but I think seeing the Richard Hamilton stuff today has given me the idea of merging laborious oil painting with contrasting elements.
