Foreword: The Artist as Writer and the Process of Art, by Matthew Biro
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Why Make Art?, 2010
On Worth, 2011
Thank You for the Not-Art, 2011
Gesamtkunstwerk, 2011
Notes, 2011
On The Master, 2011
Schneebett, 2011
The Tower of Snow: A Story of Process, 2012
From an Interview with Mary Rakow and Leo A. Harrington, 2012
From a Video Entitled Enrique Martínez Celaya, 2012
Journal, 2012
Tuesday, April 3. “The Beginning”
Monday, April 9. “A Primer on Freedom”
Sunday, April 15. “Against the Odds”
Monday, April 23. “Spirit of the Hive”
Wednesday, May 16. “One Art”
Monday, May 21. “Breakthroughs”
Tuesday, June 5. “A Mole in the Sun”
Thursday, June 7. “Road Home”
Monday, June 11. “Insolence”
Friday, July 13. “Authenticity and Drift”
Sunday, August 5. “Not a Forest”
Saturday, September 8. “Shown Rather than Told (I)”
Thursday, September 20. “The Hunt’s Will”
Sunday, October 28. “Like”
Friday, November 2. “Therefore”
Friday, December 14. “On Complaints about the Art Market”
Saturday, December 15. “Wall Wisdom”
Notes, 2012
The Pearl and the Total Work of Art, 2013
The Pearl: Between Life and Dreams: A Conversation between Enrique Martínez Celaya and Irene Hofmann, 2013
From a Video Entitled The Pearl at SITE Santa Fe, 2013
The Pearl, 2013
Notes, 2013
Journal, 2013
Wednesday, January 2. “Alain-Fournier”
Monday, February 25. “The Regret of the Mounting Dragon”
Tuesday, March 12. “The Great Race”
Thursday, May 2. “Why Don’t You Give It Away More Easily?”
Friday, June 21. “The Pearl”
Thursday, September 19. “Markets”
Monday, November 4. “Burning as It Were a Lamp”
Friday, November 8. “Empirical Evidence”
Thursday, November 14. “Confetti Words and Dark Matter”
Tuesday, November 19. “The Tide”
Wednesday, December 18. “The Advice (Part I, to Be Continued)”
On The Well, 2014
From an Interview with Saul Ostrow, 2014
Journal, 2014
Wednesday, January 15. “A Wasted Journey, A Half-Finished Blaze”
Sunday, August 24. “The Seaman’s Crop”
Monday, September 22. “Seeing Things Differently (Part I)”
Wednesday, September 24. “Seeing Things Differently (Part II)”
Tuesday, September 30. “Seeing Things Differently (Part III)”
Monday, November 17. “The Frog King”
Tuesday, December 9. “Desert Places”
Notes, 2014
The Child with the Mirror, 2014
Section Introductions from Martínez Celaya: Work and Documents 1990–2015, 2015
Why?, 2015
Excerpts from On Art and Mindfulness, 2015
Afterword from On Art and Mindfulness, 2015
Lone Star, 2015
Lone Star I
Lone Star II
Lone Star III
From a Conversation with Sebastián Martínez Celaya, 2015
Journal, 2015
Monday, January 26. “The Question of Place”
Wednesday, February 4. “To Do”
Monday, February 9. “Work”
Friday, February 20. “The Juniper Tree”
Monday, April 13. “Selling Out”
Thursday, April 30. “Fluid Dynamics”
Monday, June 22. “One Reason to Stay In”
Wednesday, October 14. “The Captain”
Wednesday, November 11. “More Welders and Fewer Philosophers”
Tuesday, November 24. “Courage and Desperation”
Empires, 2015
Empires I: Beginnings
Empires II: The Shore
Empires III: The Lions
Empires IV: Cowboy Junkies’ “Staring Man”
Empires V: The Dresser
Empires VI: The Dream
Empires VII: The Fridge
Empires VIII: Misreadings and Searchings
Empires IX: “Prodigal Son”
Empires X: Drifting
Empires XI: The Dream
Empires XII: Endings
A Footnote on Empires
From an Interview with Robin Cembalest, 2015
La Casa de Nueva Paz: A Proposal for Frieze London, 2015
On The Fourth Angel, 2015
What You Owe Yourself, 2015
From an Interview with Boris Hirmas Said, 2016
From an Interview with Ben Tufnell, 2016
Journal, 2016
Friday, February 26. “Portraits Antiportraits”
Tuesday, April 12. “Superheroes”
Sunday, May 8. “Heart, Hemingway, and the Iceberg”
Tuesday, May 10. “The Collector (Not the John Fowles Novel)”
Friday, October 28. “The Case for Not Answering a Call”
Notes, 2016
From an Interview with Hannah Silverstein, 2016
Don’t Be Great Again: Art, Disillusionment, and Potentiality, 2017
From an Interview with Chris Hedges, 2017
From an Interview with Krista Tippett, 2017
The Artist: Conscience in the Age of Cynicism, 2017
Reflections on Slowness and Art, 2017
Interview with Myself, 2017
From an Interview with Klaus Ottmann, 2017
From an Interview with Susan Delson, 2017
From an Interview with Lilly Wei, 2017
From an Interview with Osman Can Yerebakan, 2017
Notes, 2017
On Nothing That Is Ours, 2017
Journal, 2017
Thursday, April 13. “The Robot”
Tuesday, August 1. “The Reader”
Monday, August 14. “The Date”
The Other Life, 2017