thomas kemper

newly transplanted from jerome, arizona to austin, texas, thomas kemper is a lifelong artist: a drummer, singer, guitarist, poet, photographer, novelist, and painter. he has traveled america extensively from library to library. ~the idea that art must necessarily be 'about something' or must 'express something' is a fallacy, like saying that existence is merely thinking or feeling.~ ~for every answer at which you arrive, there are always ten more questions in the queue. how can a person ever succeed with the odds so heavily stacked against? in art, i find this fact to be the thing that makes success possible. working creates ideas. at the end of one work (the end of the questioning), you have only to pick the favorite new questions on which to work.~ ~is it too obvious to say that art is intention made manifest, and that creativity is a great aphrodisiac?~