Jessica Stockholder

"In Making a Clean Edge...I thought of it as a still life. Because of the space, you couldn't get far from the work, so in a sense it was unavailable to see fully. Making a Clean Edge was in some ways about the difficulty of full understanding, about exploring the thought processes, where ideas come from, and how complicated the mind is. When you understand something and have it thoroughly explained, in some sense you've limited it; the explanation defeats the fullness of the experience."

Jessica Stockholder
Inside the Studio: Two Decades of Talks with Artists in New York
Independent Curators International, 2004