The notion that we're living in the post-historical epoch is more more less universally recognized, and there is no lack of artworks that bear witness to the fact. But the idea itself has yet to be reflected back into art, to be uttered in language of art. This series is, in many ways, a concrete visual invocation of "post-historicism," of the post-historical condition. It takes up the scattered, often trivial material of the post-historical epoch and sums them up, looking at our epoch from above or without as well as within and synthesizes them into a human statement of consequence and meaning. (In fact, this is the source of one aspect of these paintings that separates them, I think, from everything else we see around us - especially all that irony, self-irony - irony everywhere, it was almost a requirement of post-modernism and post-post-modernism. The very conception of the art we're now talking about, standing above and outside of that world as well as being a part of it, frees me from that requirement. Without being bathetic or too-too-sincere, it provides the means for a return to serious considerations - a return, I believe, that our culture has been seeking for some time now.)