To work with oil paint isn't to work with theory or praxis, it's more akin dealing with the body: it's shit stains, grease stains, smells, mumbles, murmurs, uncertain assertions and frailties.
To work well with oil paint is to respectfully acknowledge disease, ambiguity, transmission, mortality.
I've always felt that way about most tactical art forms...after all as Francis Bacon once said "I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory of the past events as the snail leaves its slime."
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