p2023.2.15
NOTE
Disobey Any Cruel or Unjust Rule,
c. late 2022, prototype for 4 Tenets for Europe
later abandoned by the artist in favour of gestural strokes of Green Chartreuse paint. This prototype was inspired in part by the Marguerite Duras novel Emily L
(France, 1987) in which the protagonist is terrified by the appearance of a group of Asiatics at a Northern French Port. Fear of South-east Asia speaks to Duras's early life in French Vietnam perhaps. According to her biographer, Laure Adler, Duras and her lover Yann Andréa were drinking six or eight litres of wine a day without eating. That might be another explanation for the sudden, unreasonable terror.