I predict a revolution in media delivery. |
I realized early on that the business of art was the antithesis to the creative process and I decided to circumvent the traditional art market. |
I want people to be amused or amazed but fooled. |
I wanted to use the Internet because while fact and fiction are so easily manipulated and blurred, it has also become an ubiquitous and supposedly reliable source for information. |
I was primarily a painter, although I was classically trained in a wide spectrum of mediums. |
I was young and audacious. So I created a way to express my concerns outside of the establishment. |
I've always been a fine artist. |
If government and big business could access the media to get their messages out, I figured I could too. |
If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story, because the media will feed off of itself. They all assume the original author did his or her homework. |
In 1966, I built a crucifix and dragged it down the street on four consecutive Easters to protest man's inhumanity to man and to comment on the hypocrisy of the church. |
In 1968 I organized the Hippie Bus Tour to Queens as a satirical cultural exchange tour and I attempted to burn down a Vietnamese Village Nativity I erected in Central Park to protest the war in Vietnam. |
In 1969 I hung a Fifty Foot Brassiere on the US Treasury Building to poke fun at leering Wall Street workers and placed grotesque Statues of Liberty in Astor Place in the East Village as a war protest. |
It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled. |
It would make life much easier if I could have total faith and not question everything all the time, but I can't do it and I won't do it. |
King of the world wouldn't be enough. I'd have to be god of the universe (the Wizard of Oz would suffice). |