Rachel Whiteread's artwork, "Cabin", is being installed on Governor's Island in New York City. It's a reverse concrete cast of a small outlying building. Looks so marvelous with the sophisticated architecture behind it, a ghost-dwelling for those who seek America first spiritually and then in body.
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| 5 Car Stud, 1969-1972, Edward Kienzholz |
The effect Kienholz' installations had on me when I was in my 40's was ultimately political, didactic, pandemic agreement. I was an art equivalent of a demagogue - familiar refrain these day, yes? - ranting at injustice. Look, see what misery, horror, loneliness, suffering, injustice really looks like? Stop it now! Make it stop!
In my 70's now, it seems that a much less egotistical narcissistic reaction occurs. It's quiet, grieving: a perspective sees that the earth constricted in spatial and temporal bands of suffering and injustice that can never be forgotten - not one death redeemed, all lost. It must be pushed until death, another level of Sisiphys-ian existence.
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