Joanna Pousette-Dart: That Immediate Hit

Love this quote from Joanna Pousette-Dart in an interview with the Brooklyn Rail. Note that the pop music she references here does give you an immediate pleasure hit, but the music of Franklin and Marley is also deep and gains strength over time:

"I always think, wouldn’t it be great to be able to make something that moved people like Aretha Franklin or Bob Marley, that immediate, visceral, emotional, sensual hit. Obviously music is its own communication, but there is a visual equivalent…. People feel it in the prehistoric caves or in Chartres in front of certain works of art that just seem to be ineffable. So I’m in search of that. I’m an idealist and believe painting can be transporting."