His output has shifted from the ultimate boom - time symbol of the diamond skull, to the slow and
solitary practice of painting (last November, he made redundant an unconfirmed number of assistants).
Time spent on a
painting has often been seen as the concern
of people who don't know anything about art, who can't see the ideas in art, but in 2006, when there are so many demands on our time, time spent making each
painting makes Charles's studio
practice into a kind
of extremely radical
solitary performance.