Exhibition: Chuck Stake

Chuck Stake at Oxygen November 28 to December 20, 2008 DON MABIE/CHUCK STAKE   –   ARTIST STATEMENT “It is clear that ethics cannot be put into words. Ethics is transcendental. (Ethics and aesthetics are one and the same.)”  Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus  Ludwig Wittgenstein; Page: 71. I have written many Artist Statements in the past thirty-five years or so. For many years these statements usually approached my work in terms of its formal structure, and, only subsequently, moved on to issues of content. In time issues of content became more important and