Jimmie Durham
(c)image: Nigel Davidson
This Stone Had Always Wanted To Be a Fish... Some People Are Never Satisfied, 2003
Sculpture
, 30 x 64 x 43 cm
grey granite, acrylic
“When I paint a silly, nondescript face on stone-as-nature I want to give our mother her true face. Nature does not care. If there be gods they are not witnessed as caring. It does not follow as a moral, this next statement, but is my personal note in case you think I am cynical: It is we who must care, and develop more intellect.” [full text here]