THE PRIMAL NEED, THE IMPERATIVE OUTPUT
COVER STORY VIA FLAUNT MAGAZINE
ISSUE 191 | FRESH CUTS | SPRING 2024
BY ANNIE BUSH
“When I paint, the last thing I’m thinking about is painting,” he tells me. Painting, to Mudgett, is a sort of active dreaming process. He never presupposes any of his work before approaching it: “When you plan something ahead, it puts a cap on it,” he tells me. “It ruins the sanctity of the moment.” As such, Mudgett admits to filtering the kinds of media and other materials he allows into his waking consciousness. When he creates—which is nearly always—he hopes to be creating something that’s reflective of an interesting mind. “You know,” he tells me, “some people jog for fun. And some people train for the Olympics. Let me tell you, I’m not just jogging for fun.”
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The Christopher Mudgett archive collection is the only one in the world to present the artist’s up-to-date painted, sculpted, engraved and illustrated œuvre and a precise record—through sketches, studies, drafts, notebooks, photos, books, films and documents—of the creative process.
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