It Only Looks As If It Hurts
The Modern Institute•Nov 07, 2025 — Jan 14, 2026
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During the first Trump administration and the Covid lockdown, I was unable to pursue filmmaking, the medium I was trained to practice. I spent those years writing fiction, which had the advantages of being free and private – a field of pure invention. I eventually published three novels between 2019 and 2023. Over the course of the trilogy, the narrator becomes a painter. I followed the path of my fictional character and started painting seriously in 2022, almost immediately after the writing was finished. As a friend of mine put it, I wrote a future for myself, and it came true.
To make the No Product series (2010), I scratched and painted 16mm advertising films from the 1960s by hand, frame by frame. This defacement obliterated the objects being sold. Before the digital era, multiple film prints of commercials used to be shipped to television stations for broadcast. Consequently, a large number of copies of these films are still…
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It Only Looks As If It Hurts
The Modern Institute•Nov 07, 2025 — Jan 14, 2026
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During the first Trump administration and the Covid lockdown, I was unable to pursue filmmaking, the medium I was trained to practice. I spent those years writing fiction, which had the advantages of being free and private – a field of pure invention. I eventually published three novels between 2019 and 2023. Over the course of the trilogy, the narrator becomes a painter. I followed the path of my fictional character and started painting seriously in 2022, almost immediately after the writing was finished. As a friend of mine put it, I wrote a future for myself, and it came true.
To make the No Product series (2010), I scratched and painted 16mm advertising films from the 1960s by hand, frame by frame. This defacement obliterated the objects being sold. Before the digital era, multiple film prints of commercials used to be shipped to television stations for broadcast. Consequently, a large number of copies of these films are still…
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