Murugiah

Wow.

You have taken me somewhere I wasn't expecting.

You've seen Terminator, right?

At the moment, yes, AI can't produce tactile, intuitive information.

decision-making.

They can't make a brushstroke, which is the choice of the human.

It can't fuck up.

It can't make mistakes.

Like half the reason I make my paintings look the way they do is because I can't do certain techniques, right?

I've made decisions to go down the path of specific techniques.

I think that's what ultimately human beings respond to.

And we watch movies all the time.

And the biggest movie of the year is Sinners.

The second biggest movie of the year is One Battle After Another.

They both have very visceral, tactile looks and feels to those movies.

So we're still proving our love of tactility every day.

Quentin's work, it is about that scratchy style.

It is about that irreverent humor, but it's also about capturing life in a very...

subtle and beautiful way.

This is somebody who has been around for decades, who's been able to present this work, which is really about humanity and fun and silliness, and then also done it in this extremely intuitive human way.