What do you think?
Hmmmm (thoughtful look comes over face).

Ok, what's up with Grisaille? Why this palette?
I don't know, I'm sick of color.

Nothing more?
No, maybe some of Modernism's ideas about black and white are of interest. Black - the mysterious and white - transcendence.

And gray?
Gray's difficult.

Why write SHAKE? What's SHAKE all about?
I'm not sure, I've always seen text with a figurative impulse. I look @ street signs, graffiti, and the removal of it as a visual field to play in.

That's all?
Maybe there's a bit of welcoming responses which could cause a loss of control. First you have to read the text and then you can feel the text. Mind - Body.

Ok, of what?
Anything, anything allowing possibility & openness;
I mean many of the paintings are the size of the body. That reinforces a figurative content to the text
doesn't it?

Maybe, and what about the paint?
More of the same. Process, time, mental shifts,
a felt skin.

Why repeat the text?
Why keep writing "SHAKE"?
Sometimes it takes more than once to get
the point across.

What point?
Maybe a list would help, everybody loves a list:
Dan Graham
Deerhoof
The Sublime
Possibility
Openness
Political Boredom
Structure
Sameness
The Shakers

Good list, I like it. Do these painting ever violently shake? Does the text ever come apart?
No, the structure gets flexible, but it never breaks apart. Mr. Fantastic never snaps.

Interesting. There has always been a touch of comic book in the blood. Anything more to add?
Of course.