His art functions like the screen: formally beautiful constructions that shield you from the terrors and horrors of the world, occasionally letting a few through. “What does a house on fire look like as a form, and less like a house where one actually loses everything? If I see something or something happens in my life that’s unsavory, there’s a desire to run away. “I think these works have so much emotion in them and so much care and, like, magic,” he said. It is because you want to spend time with the things you love or value, or that scare you.

Source: International New York Times June 15, 2021 09:00 UTC