"Milky Pettish Adenine Kern"
- An Exhibition based on "The Chemistry of Money", the idea of which came to me during the epidemic.
"Stealing for the love of God", is a reference to the fact that Damien Hirst stole all of his ideas which he openly admits to.
The title for Damien Hirst's diamond skull, "For the love of God", is an English idiom used to express impatience, anger, or to emphasise exasperation.
The phrase is common in Ireland, my own mother said it to me when I was doing stupid things which was often. That doesn't mean that I think the skull is stupid, I think it's brilliant. And I adore the spots.
"Milky Pettish Adenine Kern", is an Anagramm of both of our names.
Milky - white, pale, not transparent
Pettish - moody, childishly bad-tempered
Adenin - one of the four nucleobases in the nucleic acid of DNA
Kern - solid inner part of a fruit, centre
"Earth is Mind" is an Anagramm of Damien Hirst
I have always loved making anagramms and making up words, a little like James Joyce in Finnegans Wake.
"artbeiten" is for example my word for making art as opposed to "arbeit" which is usually done for money. I make art for its own sake, it is its own reward. Like sharing and being kind to others, I don't need to be paid for it.
Recently Damien Hirst was quoted on the front cover of the Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazine proclaiming that, "Geld ist so wichtig wie die Liebe", Money is so important as love.
Damien is a billionaire.
What of it?
Art is like love to me, it is its own reward.
