Tyler Green interviews painter Amy Sillman on the occasion of the exhibition Amy Sillman: one lump or two at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, on view through January 5, 2014.

Asked about the physicality of painting, Sillman comments that paintings "are a pleasure because they're physical and they're made by you.. you're in this kind of forming relationship with them that is about changing them with the hand while you're thinking about them with the hand. The hand is the tool, the integral tool, that changes them and moves them and makes them and uses them, both in utilitarian ways and involved ways."