I was honored to contribute to this month's Brooklyn Rail's special issue on art criticism edited by the great Irving Sandler. I admit that I am shy about manifestos on writing, about position statements on why one does what they do. However, I did this piece anyway and it is the closest I've come to such a thing yet:
http://www.brooklynrail.org/2012/12/artseen/whatrsquos-lost-is-what-i-want