I did something wrong -- once.
Somehow the image begins to have a sort of memory in it, even if you can't see it. It can build up a dense feeling toward the end, and then it makes me happier.
There aren't really rules for painting, but there’s certain facts and fictions about painting. Part of what I do is document another surface and sort of translate it. They’re like translations, and then part of it is fiction, which is invention.
I'm not a very confessional artist, you know. I don't ever reveal what I'm feeling in my work, or what I think about the President. I use nature. I use found images.
I do what I do because I believe in the country that we live in. I believe we are making a difference in stemming the flow of terrorism into Australia. . . I want my children to be able to live as everyone does now without the fear of getting on a bus and having it blow up.
Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.
Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that it is a salient feature of modern life.
I'm there to make people laugh. I'm not trying to come across as sexy.