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I’d never heard of the market before so I had no idea what to expect; when I got there, I was over the moon when I discovered that this place was in fact a food haven, for there was an entire row of boats with men and women (who are Thai but ethnically Malay and therefore Muslims) selling some of the best food I’d come\u00a0across during my visit to Southern Thailand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">I had a sample of the\u00a0<i>ais batu\u00a0kacang\u00a0<\/i>(ABC — a sort of sweet delicacy made of crushed ice showered with syrups of all colors and some red beans, jellies, and ice cream) and chicken and beef\u00a0<em>kebab —\u00a0<\/em>literally one of the best I’d ever tasted, I swear to you. 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It\u2019s how readable it was even though it deviated from our understanding of what an <strong>E<\/strong> is supposed to be. I\u2019m always interested in the nature of perception and how much you understand from limited information. That issue of being able to understand what you\u2019re looking at has always been such throughout my work. I\u2019m interested not so much in its peculiarity but in its recognition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rightearleft.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/03\/martin-dupuis_glazer_5.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-1122\" src=\"https:\/\/rightearleft.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/03\/martin-dupuis_glazer_5.jpg?w=858&h=641\" alt=\"Martin Dupuis_Glazer_5\" width=\"858\" height=\"641\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Was Babyteeth specifically made for the Dylan poster, or was it something you were working on before and had around?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That was just an accident. I kind of had it on my desk at the same time. And I said if I have to use the word Dylan I\u2019ll use this typeface largely because there wasn\u2019t anything that looked quite like that around and I wanted to make the word itself look peculiar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You\u2019ve stated that the best work of an artist or designer emerges from unifying separate occurrences. Can you talk about the separate occurrences that came together to help shape the Dylan poster?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My idea is that you link things that are unrelated; it\u2019s ninety percent of the imaginative content of what you do. The interesting thing is that firstly everything is connected, and secondly – once you find the connection it seems inevitable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rightearleft.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/03\/martin-dupuis_glazer_4.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1108\" src=\"https:\/\/rightearleft.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/03\/martin-dupuis_glazer_4.jpg?w=480&h=494\" alt=\"Martin Dupuis_Glazer_4\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Dylan piece is directly derivative from the self-portrait out of cut paper that Duchamp did. I saw it for the first time and was astonished at the amount of energy and power it had from a simple black silhouette. No technology that was impressive or anything \u2013 it was just this black profile in the corner of a piece of paper and I said Jesus! look at the energy that that releases. And it was just in my mind and I thought, I could do that with Dylan.<\/p>\n<p>Than I thought that it was too austere and too easily understood and I was also interested in Islamic painting and so I said I\u2019ll take a little piece of this decorative Islamic idea and combine it with a very unlikely self portrait by Duchamp and see what comes out for Bob Dylan. And that\u2019s what I meant earlier – that connecting seemingly unrelated events is one of the essential tools of artists.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rightearleft.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/03\/martin-dupuis_glazer_6.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-1133\" src=\"https:\/\/rightearleft.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/03\/martin-dupuis_glazer_6.jpg?w=986&h=1001\" alt=\"Martin Dupuis_Glazer_6\" width=\"986\" height=\"1001\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>I haven\u2019t checked the dates, but were you around when he was in NY? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He was around. In fact Duchamp quite coincidentally had a studio on 14<sup>th<\/sup> street next to mine. I rented a little room to paint in and Duchamp was right down the hall. I never had a long conversation with him outside of <em>do you have the keys to the bathroom<\/em> but he spent all his time playing chess by mail. And he never did any artwork during that period. This was late in his life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rightearleft.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/03\/martin-dupuis_glazer_8.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-1144\" src=\"https:\/\/rightearleft.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/03\/martin-dupuis_glazer_8.jpg?w=980&h=1302\" alt=\"Martin Dupuis_Glazer_8\" width=\"980\" height=\"1302\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>His readymades greatly puzzle me, I\u2019ve always had a hard time getting my head around it all.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to talk about an understanding of them for they are meant to be confusing, transgressive and provocative. 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So you have to respect the unconscious function and the profound mystery of art making without trying to analyze every gesture and thought because mostly that\u2019s bullshit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rightearleft.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/03\/martin-dupuis_glazer_11.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-1150\" src=\"https:\/\/rightearleft.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/03\/martin-dupuis_glazer_11.jpg?w=916&h=906\" alt=\"Martin Dupuis_Glazer_11\" width=\"916\" height=\"906\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The iconography of Dylan seems like a dream canvas to be molding and commenting upon, what did he mean to you then and what does he mean to you now?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I liked Dylan very much. I knew him. He was represented by Albert Grossman, who is a good friend of mine. And I would see him occasionally, actually I haven\u2019t seen him since I did that poster which is a very long time ago. 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So he tended to hate everything in it, and although he\u2019s never told me that he never liked the poster, in fact we\u2019ve never discussed it at all \u2013 it will probably remain the most iconic representation because its been reproduced so many times.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rightearleft.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/03\/martin-dupuis_glazer_31.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1111\" src=\"https:\/\/rightearleft.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/03\/martin-dupuis_glazer_31.jpg?w=480&h=702\" alt=\"Martin Dupuis_Glazer_3\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>I’ve seen a rough version of the Dylan image that has a different silhouette and a harmonica, did the project go through many different phases?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No, the silhouette is the same but in the original I had a harmonica. It was the art director who said you know maybe you can take out the harmonica and he was right. And actually this was the only solution I arrived at, which happens very frequently.<\/p>\n<p><strong>There is a great sense of exploring contrasts in the poster: the black and white silhouette vs. the blast of color in the hair, the organic shapes in the image vs. the geometric rigidity of the type \u2013 do you see the exploration of dualities as an element that finds itself in your your body of work or did it spawn out of a personal reflection from Dylan\u2019s music and mythology?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No I think it’s like most stuff, it’s highly intuitive. You are trying to make something that will change people\u2019s perception without exactly knowing how to do it except through a certain response to form making. 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