Doing art that has a happy ending, that doesn't seem really corny, is extremely difficult to pull off convincingly.
Eric DrookerWe had collaborated with Allen Ginsberg on one of his last projects just before he died in the spring of '97, a book called Illuminated Poems - it was Allen's poems and songs and I illustrated them. Or, I illuminated them with paintings and drawings that bounced off of them. You want the picture to relate to the text without it slavishly regurgitating it or merely illustrating it, because that's redundant. You want to show another angle of what the text is saying.
Eric DrookerArt grabs people by their eyeballs, it seduces them. Especially if the picture is very beautiful or very sexy or just really weird, if it has some surreal element in it.
Eric DrookerHaving your work in a museum is something we as artists aspire to, but I don't think that's something we need to worry about while we're alive.
Eric Drooker