Benjamin’s Comments (group member since Apr 20, 2009)

Benjamin’s comments from the Q&A with Zak Smith group.

In either of them, which passage made you think they had something worth saying - which passages within them do you return to, if you return at all, to re-appraise? To say, "What the hell was he talking about?" or, alternately, "What the hell was I thinking?" Or, to say, "Yes, that's it. Precisely it. Still." Or not.

I was quite taken with the detail of this particular portrait, having loved that particular epoch of Marvel comics and can see at least two copies of "The New Mutants" - I always wanted to find those comics to examine how you had essentially captured them - and how you had not captured them - because I thought that might blow me away - if, ha, you could tell me what issues those happen to be, I'm sure I could pull them up - supposing you could know. I enjoy that picture's "controlled chaos" - all those disparate elements that I think enhance the portrait. Further, where they her comic books, or yours? Were these just what happened to be lying about, or were the objects chosen with forethought?

Also, are there any writers on art that you find particularly influential/attractive? I myself have been quite fond of Dave Hickey, still alive, and John Ruskin, quite dead, and Samuel Beckett, also dead.

I'd meant to drop in earlier, but other duties press.

Thank you for adding me.