"Drawing is very central to the way that I work because it can be blown up, taken apart.... You can just keep on pushing it, like this infinite machine...."
"The Foresaken" (1999)
"The Foresaken," 1999
Watercolor, gouache, ink and pencil on paper, 60 x 40 inches
Private collection, New York
Courtesy Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
Watercolor, gouache, ink and pencil on paper, 60 x 40 inches
Private collection, New York
Courtesy Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
"When I painted the monkey wife, I painted her individually and I named it ‘The Forsaken.’ And my idea is that what Richard Burton did as part of his colonial enterprise was to actually learn languages. When he would go to a new place...he would have a woman set up house for him and become his mistress. And he said he would learn the language that way. So this thing with the monkey wife seemed to be perverse once you know that about him."
- Walton Ford
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