Tyler Daniel Bean
SPB: After music, what arts interest you?
Bean: I’m inspired by the thought Annie Dillard put into creating a sentence, the quiet way Agnes Martin’s minimalism intentionally rejects the ease of machines, how Mark Rothko’s experimentations with the drying times of paint additives helped change the ways we experience modern art, the way Richard Siken blends dreams with life to explore loss and grief, the way Maggie Nelson keeps an entire world of art and theory in orbit while interpreting and refining reality.
But I think what interests me most lately is the idea of learning something new, acknowledging that the people who inspire me started doing what they do because someone else inspired them to try and try and try.
