For Pippilotti
oil on panel, 18 × 42 inches, 2020

Painted on a handmade panel (poplar cradle; baltic birch surface) with chalk gesso grounds

Ten years ago I spent all afternoon in a dark corner of the Neue Nationalgalerie, hypnotized by Ever Is Over All. The sound is pressed into my brain like grooves on a record. At any moment, I can still set that record spinning and project myself back to that the time and space.