"Over the years, I have worked either from the subjective world of my
imagination, finding the image through my response to and manipulation of
the materials I work with, or worked from the objective world of reality,
discovering the image among the relationship of forms in common objects that
I use for models. The process becomes a play between my control over the
materials and an open and permissive attitude toward technique, allowing it
to mold the image as it will. Hopefully, even the most literal works
transcend the definition of objects from which they are derived. I enjoy the
paradox of developing something quite organic while using inorganic models."
Jay DeFeo, statement, 1986
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