I couldn't see the rest of the painting when I worked on the upper part - it was not stretched out - the surface was not rolled out so I had only the surface I was working on in my view. Maybe that has something to do with it - it makes the whole thing have less fixed perspective.
I don't know, if somebody doesn't tell me how would I know?
If people want to interpret my work as warnings about too much overpopulation, disease and mechanization in the future, then that is up to them.
It's also not so easy, you know in the beginning I worked on these paintings just on a roll of paper which I fixed with two nails on the wall and I spread out just the top so I could work on it. I had to sit to work with the airbrush so I set my elbows on my knees, so they wouldn't move.
No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.
Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.
The blade, and the round thing - they are the coins or whatever, they are all there. That's true, they are all there, I didn't realize that.
There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.
Yeah - some objects are of course existing, like the gun, I have a pump shotgun like the one in Pump Excursion.
You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that.
You know, I did that back when I was doing my Spell paintings, 1973-'76 and I was fascinated by this Baphomet image, and so this was long before I met Akron, who I've known for about twelve years or so.
You know, I said I have this problem that I need to more carefully read Akron's text because it's too much, too much fantasy, and so I am busy with other stuff - it's funny, it's nice to hear that someone is studying that carefully and now I know a little bit more about that.
You know, it was just another presentation of my work, and a funny one, because the cards are quite different from the normal Tarot deck, no?
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