Thursday, July 14, 2011

Containment



I've been working on this sucker for at least three months now. It's finally getting to the point where I can invite people in to see and comment on it. I asked Olivia about it this weekend. She said reminds her of a big messy room. She had some memory of a cartoon where the kid had to create tunnels through the mess in his room to get out. It gave her that impression. She also expressed a strongly held belief that art should be CONTAINED and this piece, she said, is NOT at all contained. I thought that was a very interesting comment from a psychological perspective. I wonder how many other artists kids wish that the art in their lives was more contained!

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