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11-2003-0330-49-golden-gate-park-flowers_radialIt’s more important to get people to be light. It works on so many more levels. Forget everything else I’ve said. It’s really all about laughing, and about lightness.

And probably, even more so, about deliberately distinguishing actual laughter, from the kind of moment when people say things like “Too funny!!” but also forgets to laugh.

The importance of lightness in art.
Nay, lightness, without being slight.
Wegman, Emin, The Chapmans, Gilbert & George…There’s a friendly intelligence in Wegman’s work that precedes any assumptions one might make about his audience…8 or 80 years old, you still like dogs wearing clothes and with human body parts.