Trash Can [Do It] 1
2002.03.26
collage on canvas panel
10 x 8 inches overall
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Trash Can [Do It] 2
2002.03.26
collage on canvas panel
10 x 8 inches overall
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2002.04.03 11:01
Re: [art] being/appositional [to architecture]
David wrote:
it depends on how abstruse and removed from the common use of the word [i.e., apposition] you would like to get...and beyond that, how much faith you have in that interpretation.
Steve replies:
Personally, I do have faith in 'apposition' being apposite the notion of art being a successive layer to architecture. Moreover, common usage of 'apposition' does not necessarily preclude successive layers of meaning being added to the common usage.
My line questioning was not directed so much to the usage of the common word, rather to the notion of successive layers relative to the makeup of art vis-à-vis architecture, a reality that exists no matter what word is used to describe it. [And if anyone can offer a better word that applies to this reality, then please do.]
If all this questioning and labeling is 'uncommon', then all the more reason for opening it to "public disputation."
As Lao-Tzu said, "If the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten. And if the belt fits, the belly is forgotten."
Or as I once wrote in a square poem, "All reality is relative to the vastness of its container."
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