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I saw a quote from you , I think it was from the exhibition you had at the Rockwell Museum , and it goes , “ When I ' m drawing , I ' m thinking what do I think is funny ? What ' s making me laugh ? And what ' s getting to me ?” What ’ s getting to you right now ? What ' s capturing your attention ? Well right now , I am making babaganoush , and I am roasting these eggplants in the oven . And I have this sort of history of forgetting about something while I ' m making it because I get distracted by something else . So I ' m thinking , “ Don ' t forget about the eggplants . Don ' t forget about the eggplants .” This is just so boring , but it ' s like I am picturing fire coming out of the sides of the oven because I ' ve completely forgotten about them and it ’ s , like , four in the afternoon and the oven is 460 degrees . And I ' ve just gotten distracted by some other nonsense . So , yeah , that ' s what ' s attracting my attention right now : the thought of two eggplant halves on fire inside of the oven , in there for , like , four hours .
I think they would probably be reduced to ashes at that point . Yes . Like two pathetic black shriveled eggplant halves . That ' s what I ' m sort of picturing .
Besides burning eggplants , what are some of your hobbies ? I just finished a big embroidery , and I really am excited about it . I was looking at this book of these small enamel painting creations from 1510 . They were at The Frick , and I have the book . There ' s one triptych of the crucifixion , but one of the panels has these two horses that are so funny . I drew the horses and enlarged them and drew them onto the canvas , and I embroidered them . I have to say they really came out great . n
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