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I began the series of Sick People in 2002 and have continued working on it until today. My inspiration was found during
visits to a home for the incurably ill. There was very little movement in this place. Neither time nor season seemed to exist.
Though television was heard everywhere, there was still a strange pervasive silence. I can't say I really wanted to see anything
during my visits, this may be due to the purpose of my visits or the implications of the place, that is, no one there ever
leaves while still alive. Still I saw alot - seeing through glances into rooms, down hallways, seeing people in chairs, in
their beds, waiting for meals, etc. Doing these paintings, starting to do them, wasn't easy. I felt as if I was unfairly revealing
something which should remain hidden, that I was doing something morally forbidden by showing the weak and the vunerable.
I also worried that perhaps there wasn't sufficient variation in subject matter. Now, however, I feel differently. I find
the images essential and the variation without limit - the variation between zero and one, the infinite variation of decimal
places.
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