Fashion and its built-in seasonal obsolescence has long been the engine that drives aesthetic innovation in contemporary art. As soon as a new style bubbles up from an original source, scribbled by an early adopter of a disenfranchised subculture like grunge or skateboarding, an alarm sounds. Soon thereafter legions of young artists rush to be anointed by that ever-mutating but absolutely required craze. In this way, the art world is not unlike a colony of ants: individuals blindly working on instinct toward the completion of a communal project, without grasping the whole or the reason each is so feverishly engaged. For a young artist amid this grinding activity that forces all motion in a single direction, it's often... More >>>