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The JAZZ moment

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The thing is, at one point I did have the idea to paint like this. That was the jazz moment.

Paintings like this might look like improvisations. But at this point in a contemporary art practice, they're almost certainly guaranteed to be contrived. It's like a jazz musician who improvises a riff one night, and then pretends to improvise that same riff, night after night, hundreds of times over. But the thing is at one point I did have the idea to paint like this - that was the jazz moment.