Andrew Cranston

Yeah.

In the sense that I think the absurd as well as maybe a sort of brother to surrealism, but a slightly different one, you know, like, I mean, one that, you know, my parents would recognise absurdity and, you know, kind of thing, but...

And, of course, you know, spending your life in rooms, moving coloured mud around onto things is quite absurd.

You can feel quite an absurd existence.

And yet, you know, there's so many ways in which when you're being serious, you know, or trying to be, or people are being serious...

that they're not really being any more serious than people that are being absurd no but i think there's a sort of playfulness that you have to have where i don't know i've always found it liberating in a kind of way i say to myself sometimes well nobody really cares about this

I can just please myself here, you know.

But there is great joy in it, actually, you know, and pleasure.

I like the word pleasure, actually, a lot.

It's the doing of it that I find really exciting.

And in some ways, it's like when they're finished, you know, like I'm quite glad to see the back of them, actually, to be honest.

Yeah.

I can't understand anybody that would want to hand that over, you know, an AI robot or a team of people, you know, working on paintings.

Cause I, you know, I just, I get so absorbed in it.

And I think it's the only thing in my life that I,

It's not prayer, but meditation.

You know, it's something that's actually, I'm so lost in it.

You know, time changes.

It feels like it slows down and speeds up and it's so transformative.

The feeling that, you know, this action you're doing just changes how you feel and how you see things.