Back when I watched the early REM videos, I liked not having a clue what Michael Stipe looked like behind his hair. And you only heard of Swans. There were very few videos of them. Kiss would be onstage with all their makeup and you’d wonder who they were, what they looked like. There was power behind the characters. And when they took their makeup off, they were able to go on their merry way. In art school, Deb Rockman had taught us that less is more. You don’t have to have every structural line in place to get the general gist of a painting or a charcoal drawing. And I didn’t need to be
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