been looking for you this weekend, with no signs of your presence. Maybe we'll find each other tomorrow?
Many ups and downs on my side. In the midst of a freakish rainy summer, grey and misty every day in the month that is usually too hot and sunburn. Its getting to me a little. Or maybe more than a little.
So the rainy summer is a time to be inside, to hit the museums and curl up with a good sculpture/photograph/video piece of choice and try feel a small blip of inspiration. I went to a really interesting show at the New Museum today - called "The Generational: Younger Than Jesus" - 50 artists from 25 countries all under 33. The first piece I saw was by Katerina Seda, a Czech artist. Robyn, I thought so much of your work! Her piece is called "It Doesn't Matter", and it came out of an exercise she did with her grandmother, who was depressed after her husband died. The title comes from her answer to most questions. She got her grandma to draw pictures of all the inventory (tools, supplies) she had kept in the hardware store she'd run most of her life. She did about 500 drawings all in all, and these are placed floor to ceiling on one wall of the museum. There was also a video, where you see her grandma drawing, and you can hear Seda asking why she's drawing something from the side and not the front, or why she's left the other side of the page blank.
She also made a series of videos - "Copy Mother" - where you see her following the exact steps of her mother as she folds laundry; "Copy Father" where she copies the exact movements of her father as he rakes the garden; and "Copy Child" where her parents walk on either side of her down the road, and they copy each time she looks a different way, and bends down to pat a dog. These were actions that she notes were 24 hours each.
I found a thoughtful article about the piece, heres a link
