Dennis ophenheim

When the work becomes autobiographical it permitted this delivery of questions toward a self. The engaging of these questions in the work became the substance of the work. It was a much closer aptitude than making sculpture. They were usually stimulated skeletal views into the frailty of decision making. These works admitted things, showed procedures, uncovered secrets-things we usually keep camouflaged. So there was a supposition that nothing is as important as knowing why we do what we're doing. What precipitated the autobiographical performance body-related pieces was the feeling that it is a trap, a superficial preoccupation in comparison to work which interrogates itself.