Jonathan Monk, Lost Idea (2006)

Based on mismatches of Ed Ruscha watercolors, I believe, though I can’t find the exact original reference:

“Lost Idea” is my favourite painting I have seen, and the first one I have really wanted to own, since this:

Sue Havens, Cemetery

Though I must admit it is partly due to my initial ignorance in thinking it was a LOST TV reference, but don’t tell Monk that if I try to buy it someday. Not because I am a fan of the show (though I am) — I would never buy a painting for that dumb a reason, unless it was a deliberately dumb act, you know, as art, I’d buy it because I like it, and, frankly, the Ruscha reference sorta sullies it. I mean, what I don’t get about painters I really respect, is why they keep referencing painting while saying disparaging the narrative. Get out of your medium, man. Just cuz you’re afraid of being called illustration doesn’t mean you have to stay in the 20th century. And painting POP figures doesn’t, even if they were born in the 21st century (do we have any yet ?), doesn’t update you. — but because I think that intro is absolutely amazing and want to make art about it. Though I don’t have the gumption to just do a restaging (or a reworking) and call it art. I guess I could just do it and call it done! Or, I could be the LOST white 3D rendering in the dark, passing through dark serbian streets with the impetus of the LOST intro, embodying its intensity and ubiquity and singularity…

“I. AM. LOST”

“no, no, no, no: I know where I am. It is that: I am ‘LOST’ Got it?”

- via vvork