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Includes text: "He knew everything there was to know about literature (art), except how to enjoy it.” This statement became analogous in my mind to the heavy emphasis in the art world on concept and text as opposed to visual appeal and just seeing. I was feeling constantly frustrated having to read wall text in museums and galleries about an art work, (which ended up ironically more interesting than actually looking at the art piece), and so my frustration came out as a reversal in this painting—a graphic gestalt of strong visual appeal, amplified with the 22 red bars to draw one in as another kind of catch, and a buried text and concept (a catch-22) regarding the operation of the art industry and art world success for me at that moment in time.