For me, art is make-believe. It’s enchantment. It’s a fable. I’m enjoying that and playing with it. Of course it’s serious, and art is serious, but I’m not going to rarefy it. Shea Hembrey Read Quote
I like the idea that paintings are not representations of an artist’s psyche. Making the paintings is what gives the artist her psyche in the first place. Shea Hembrey Read Quote
Where I grew up, there was a mysticism and creativity to everything. Everyone made things with their hands. Shea Hembrey Read Quote
I love drawing on lead. Romans used to curse each other with sheets of it. My slave would come slide the sheet under your door with a curse on it. They had amazing writing and drawings on them, and they survive to this day since lead is so stable. Shea Hembrey Read Quote
It’s an audacious thing to build a model of the cosmos. It’s exciting how little we know. Shea Hembrey Read Quote
I’m interested in the essence of things. If you pare things down, what’s left? It’s like I’m trying to describe the soul to an alien. Shea Hembrey Read Quote
My grandfather was a healer, and he used matches often. Once, he burnt a wart off my finger and then rubbed the ash deep into it, and it never did come back. When he worked at a factory, people would line up next to his truck to be healed. He died before he could teach us any of his secrets. Shea Hembrey Read Quote
If dark matter and dark energy are 95 percent of everything, shouldn’t we all be asking questions about that? What does that look like? Shea Hembrey Read Quote