Dear Viewers,
You know how I love the white box, the white cube, the white room, with a tiny bit of formal art in it. I love it like ponds pocked by rain drops, like the sound of poplar leaves in the wind. I love the white room with a small amount of art in it. But, I worry. It isn't sustainable, to use the parlance of the day. It isn't very friendly for humans, either. It's like those people you know, who have three sticky kids, a great dane, and a cockatoo, and what do they get? A white velvet chesterfield. It just seems all wrong.
I know a woman who has a very lovely home, there's nary a white wall in it, and she has lovely objet d'arts on the tables and shelves, and drawings, prints, paintings and sculptures on the wood paneled walls. My own abode has white walls all over the place, but the art stuffs are chock a block- little sculptures are two deep in the nichos, and folk art is crammed into the glass-fronted oak cupboards.
I want you, for the love of Mike, to want art, to want things that have been made by human hands, in your space, even if it is a 16 foot canned ham trailer. Art, and I know it well enough to speak for it, wants to be near you; it's lonely in the white cube, where it never changes, because a team of curators and conservators are always fussing with it. Art spends most of its time, truth be told, in climate controlled storage. It's sad, really. A bunch of beautiful things, with stories to tell, with feeling to elicit, stuffed in the museum basement packed in bubble wrap and naphthalene.
