May Fourteenth, 2025 A Statement about Genesis “You don’t really want to call it “an artwork,” you wanna call it a proposition [Proposition = It’s okay to fail.] ya know what I’m saying? … it’s like a question about art; it’s a query… the shit you’re making is not an answer. Mark sure you say it’s exploring something; challenging or investigating, but don’t say it’s solving anything, alright?” Hennessy Youngman ( ART THOUGHTZ: How to Make an Art , YouTube, February 8th, 2011) “Accounting and budgeting are a kind of practice.” L’Rain ( Keynote Address , Campfire Symposium at NYU, April 4th 2025; paraphrased) (7) Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen. [Translation: Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must remain silent] Ludwig Wittgenstein ( Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung [Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus], 1921)