"Matthew is obsessed with restraint," she said, describing his love of Manhattan as an example. "The idea that you're stuck between all these gigantic skyscrapers is a restraint. And he finds it's a turn-on for him, it excites him."
"I find that really fascinating, because I'm the other way around," she said. "I'm like, put me on the top of a mountain with deer licking my fingers or something, and that's creative to me. That's like heaven."
• Bjork (On Drawing Restraint 9 in the NYTimes yesterday)
In previous "Drawing Restraint" works, Mr. Barney has talked about how the removal of restraint, allowing for what he describes as eroticism, inevitably results in atrophy.
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Comments (9)
Dear Bjork; One person's restraint is another's empowerment. Put me on that mountaintop for more than a vacation, and I'm in hell. The lack of restaurants and pubs and theatre and museums and culture... the lack of architecture and the lack of people...
To some of us, that's a restraint.
...I'm just sayin'
I'm never sure what the hell Matthew Barney is talking about but so what. He's got the vision thing in spades.
WTF?
god bless them. both of them.
Anyway, the cautionary tale duly noted--
I know that I went to public school but HUH? Should I have smoked something first before reading the article?
Don't worry about it. Really. But Matthew Barney makes movies like nothing else on earth, so you might want to check it out.
It's probably even better if you do get a little prepared before the show.
Oh, I love Matthew Barney and Bjork! They're on the top of my list for a fantasy dinner party. [...right up there with: Sandra Bernhard, Henry Rollins, Quentin Tarantino, Jonathan Adler, Simon Doonan, David Sedaris, Amy Sedaris. That's my idea of one hell of a dinner party...]
A good mental picture: Standing on a mountain top licking Bjork's fingers. ;^)