8/5

not keeping track of the day — take a few days off
i don’t like wasting pages — i want to keep track of some daily things in this notebook but i’m afraid of ‘ruining’ pages — i’ll use the blank pages — i can tear them out — i want to paint or draw as much as i write — (try to make them interesting (these notes to myself — ‘try’ as a command — telling myself to do it — ‘try’ as future tense [i’ll] try to make them neat))

finished ronell yesterday
got the new andre book out —
<carl andre: preface to my work itself>

my notes get scattered again —

andre p231 last para

andre’s work is irreverent — ?
how does one ‘perceive’ irreverence — it seems (what’s a good word) — it’s diverse but not usually seen that way — most of the non ‘standard’ things are not very good — or no good —
‘hard work’ — it doesn’t seem like hard work to me — i don’t like the idea of ‘art’ ‘worker’ — class differentiations

232 top left
time — time factors
is this meaningless — isn’t all art about time — isn’t all art about space — can one write about art without these meaningless ideas

232 bottom left

“...Andre’s invitation to walk on the sculptures”

— but not in museums

NOTE — AGAM — i’ve thought about for years (old statues that get worn & polished
ANDRE —(art as floor)

“i have produced a body of work that tends to generate it’s own future.”

artist’s statements can be ridiculous — pretentious
is there any art that this statement doesn’t apply to
why ‘tends to’ — i have produced a body of work that generates its own future ‘body of work’
the future of art —
no art has control of its future — what it generates is usually minor in an historical setting