Agreed, I would have really liked the paintings by themselves with minimal context. But this kind of pretentious artíst archetype seems like its designed to alienate most people from visual art rather than invite them in. And even though I really love the paintings, they don't embody all the fancy ideas he's going on (and on) about in this write up. You're cool and smart, we get it. The paintings can and should speak for themselves.
It helps to consider the pretentious artistry as part of the piece. The writing about his experience doing the piece, and the experiences themselves are more interesting than the piece itself and need not be separate criteria.
It's okay for most people to be alienated by it. They are neither wrong nor right to be so: I'm just happy that this art form exists.
Nobody made you read an artist's blog. It seems disengenous to go voluntarily read someone's writing then criticize them for writing and not "letting their work speak for itself"
