ART: MOMA Favorites

Don't know this artist, but this is suspended from the ceiling and I found it very witty - Home Sweet Home is a dream for Americans today.

ALBERTO BOETTI: The Maps Series

I have loved these from the first time I saw them, love them with lyric fervor, before I thought about the implications - that there’s no way to stop “it”...only partial restraints work part of the time, but always yield to time - a kind of economic model of over-determined causation which is our real and existential condition.  

Afgan tribal women weave the rugs and hangings Boetti designs, but communications being what they are - the final product contain alterations of design made by the women in the process of their work - more of this color yarn is available, what color did he intend?  So one weaving has a black field of ocean, another pink, astonishingly beautiful, the 

Each country’s borders are defined by a partial section of its flag, suggesting power, conflict, border struggles, and a harmony of diversity- the controls of politics produce the form of design, the design of form.  

And there’s a plenitude, a fullness, combined with floating - a decorative border encloses the generous scale of the artwork, delighting in the folk energy of the decorative,  the sustained life force of human expressive possibility.

These Boettis are 100 combinations of digitally possible arrangements of black and white squares, with much randomness integral to the design concept.

Sol Lewitt, MOMA

Ideas about doing more work with maps - just don’t come up with any concept or artistic response other than a sort of decoupage low relief approach that looks decorative.

I was so moved by the tenderness and physicality of this small sculpture - if one had never been a mother, one would still know and yearn to hold the baby forever close, forever young, in everlasting arms, to know the joy and gratitude of being a part of the great power of Creation, to accept the yoke of care that grows ever outward to Oneness.