“I think about things that excite me: convoluted strata, the eroded and broken edges of cliffs, the constant interaction of the elements, the movement of boats on water....

I think about the object and its inner image; the activity of each and the play between the two and I try to be straight forward to remove unnecessary information...

For all the theorizing, formal and conceptual notions, the truth of the matter is that I see myself as a conduit - the titles come afterwards so that I don’t impose myself on the work as it goes along. Then I leave it alone...

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For all the theorizing, formal and conceptual notions, the truth of the matter is that I see myself as a conduit - the titles come afterwards so that I don’t impose myself on the work as it goes along. Then I leave it alone.

I have been saying the same thing all my working life, just in different ways.”

This was written for my 2002 Lydon Contemporary exhibition in Chicago and here I am in 2010 realizing that whatever I might conjure up - I could not, and should not say more.

Trevor Bell, 2010