“I’ve started to hear stories of people becoming less anxious about living in a world with a deadly and mysterious virus lingering on objects we touch and in the air we breathe.” Well good, because that world is always existent for each one of us. People getting sick and/or dying from a disease they got from the air or a surface is not a new phenomenom. It’s always present, it’s just that the risk is increased somewhat. There is no point in freaking out about nature. It’s going to do what it’s going to do, and we can only respond to it sometimes. Most people are going to get killed by their own cells.

I actually have a copy of 5 Deaths, 11 Times in Orange hanging in my house, and I’m not far from where Andy Warhol went to college. Andy himself was certainly not adverse to risk . He broke every rule in the fine arts. He hung out with weirdos and dope fiends, and one of them shot him. He was out and about in dangerous 1960s and 1970s New York City all the time. I have a relative that was going to Parsons Art Institute back in the day that used to see him just walking around Lower Manhattan by himself. They said it was pretty magical, but dude there were bullets flying.

I don’t know about you, but I’m done with the “Do as I say not as I do.” philosophy from artists, or anyone else.