Paul Sharits (1943-1993)

Young artists beware!

                After each completed major work, each major exhibition, there is death. (Keep several projects going at once, overlap them so that when one “dies” [is born to others], there are other to turn attention to.) broken relationships, risking, fights, uncentered, putting myself in the wrong places, traveling (running)—then the inevitable “Tragedy” and consequent depression—the need to find the self—center again… and again… and again…

                This time, after intense overwork and “successful exhibition (Albright-Knox), the closest to death. She