Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Sticks

Yesterday, with the help of a former student, I was lugging bundles of sticks from a site where I had done an installation back to my studio. I had no idea whether this installation had any meaning for anyone, and I wondered why I even chose to do this. Of course, this was one of many times I had chosen to make this kind of absurd effort.


What would a culture be like in which these kinds of creative efforts by artists were not absurd, but were a norm accepted by the larger public? Certainly not a materialistic, capitalistic one. Maybe one where beauty and creativity were their own rewards.

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