Quotes from Leslie Scalapino

The Animal is in the World Like Water in Water

Trying to learn anything in any circumstances — is caring what people think, and so is worth nothing.

Flatness was construed as (was made to be) a barrier put up against the viewer's normal wish to enter a picture and dream, to make it be a space apart from life in which the mind would be free to make its own connections.

What is the separation between information and the unfolding of phenomena?

The unfolding of phenomena is dependent on ignorance.

Experience itself is convention and we are outside of experience.

The mind knows what it is doing and meets itself.

There is no relation between using the mind — as one does, in repairing shoes, and seeing it.

An event is not in the person.