Adam Cullen, the painter, has died. I liked his style which, according to wikipedia has at times been called by some critics as simplistic, crude, adolescent or puerile, though he has been voted one of Australia's most collectible contemporary artists.
In one media interview Adam Cullen described happiness as ''just a delusion that's created on TV'' and the world as a place that was ''not quite right."
What I take from that, is that life is a struggle for most people, juggling jobs they don't like, to the tsunami of ever increasing expenses involve in staying alive, to relationships that eventually fade away to nothing.
He was curious about his own death and said dying would ''be some kind of conceptual relief.''
He was sickly during his life, so you can take from that what you like.
It is easier being dead, I guess, easier than the ever diminishing returns of being a live. You know, just when most of us have some hope of having life worked out, our health goes and we slowly rot away.
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