Rob Pruitt.My Interest in Paris Hilton  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. isn't is·n't Contraction of is not. isn't is not isn't be a critique--unless it's a critique of myself. Paris is my preposterous after ego. I'm forty, and the project is like a midlife crisis midlife crisis n. A period of psychological doubt and anxiety that some people experience in middle age. midlife crisis in my studio. I made the paintings wearing five-inch heels to channel her energy. Am I where I thought I would be now when I was in my twenties? If I paint Paris, will she buy one of my paintings? Why do I feel the way I do wearing these heels? Am I my father's son? He bought a Corvette corvette, small warship, classed between a frigate and a sloop-of-war. Corvettes usually were flush-decked and carried fewer than 28 guns. They were widely employed in escorting convoys and attacking merchant ships during the great naval wars of the late 18th and when he turned forty. For me. Paris is less about her achievements, which most people would say are nil, and more about her gestures and the way she moves. I like to imagine her choosing her outfits and practicing her red-carpet poses. She exists as a readymade, creating compositions with her body.--AS TOLD TO ALISON M. GINGERAS [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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