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What is Still Unknown Yet Already Exists


How can one care for something that one can only think of controlling and exploiting? Feeling separate from nature leads to this interaction, which is so negative and devastating. In some fields of science-and among certain scientists—there's a strong inclination to impose one's will on and control over what's being studied. Some scientific methods are wonderful, but everything we perceive depends on our capacity to listen, relate to others, feel and see the network, and intuit what is still unknown yet already exists.

Delcy Morelos
from a conversation with Chilean artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña, here.
Delcy Morelos, from  the group show Until The Moon Comes Over the Mountain at Parrish Art Musuem
“It's pure curiosity. It's 95% just constantly asking questions: what's the right direction for this work of art? How should you install it? Will it survive outdoors? By asking these questions, by expressing curiosity, you're in a train of thought that leads to the most interesting places...I think what sustains it, and maybe this is also something of our personality as a studio — is not reaching, not forcing it into one conclusion or another.”

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And That Has To Be Enough


I don’t think that people on our side have any right to assume a good outcome. I think that the real, authentic motive for doing what we’re doing is because it’s right. And that has to be enough. If we have to have some guarantee that it’s going to be effective, sooner or later, we’ll become discouraged and quit.

Wendell Berry
from an interview concerning protests

Shifting Coordinates


Image from the June 2026 exhibition, Shifting Coordinates, at the Kunstnerforbundet in Oslo, Norway. 

Unknown Territory


“If there were no continual effort to start from the beginning there would be no art. I cannot help it but start from scratch. I am tempted only when I experience something unknown, something new and meaningful for me. It seems, however, that this unknown territory is sooner reached by way of reduction than by growing complexity. Reduction certainly doesn’t mean simplification, but it is the way – at least in an ideal scenario – to the most intense concentration on the essence of things. In the compositional process I always have to find this nucleus first from which the work will eventually emerge."

Arvo Pärt
Interview with Arvo and Nora Pärt
The Musical Times, Autumn 1999