Within sterile confines
Silent narratives
Cultural significance
The display case acts as a barrier, separating the viewer and blurring the lines between authenticity and artifice.
“Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector’s passion borders on the chaos of memories.” – Walter Benjamin
Pursuit of experience
Consumption of signs
Assumptions and realities
The image of the staircase can be interpreted as a microcosm of the Baudrillardian concept of simulacrum.
“Photography is our exorcism. Primitive society had its masks, bourgeois society its mirrors. We have our images.” – Jean Baudrillard
Texture touch
Inanimate object
Interaction creation
Objects exist as an experience in relation to ourselves and our surroundings.
“The world is not a collection of objects, but a totality of lived experiences.” – Mikel Dufrenne
Looking with impunity
Omniscient perspective
On a wall
As we encounter the image, our intentional consciousness brings forth the various elements that constitute our experience of it.
“The world is not something that we simply encounter; it is something that we constitute through our intentional acts.” – Edmund Husserl
Public logistic
Art representative
Interaction expectations
Movement is necessary to experience all galleries.
“An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.” – James McNeill Whistler
Experience action
Physical property
Objects depicted
In the courtyard, I appreciate skylight window shadows overlapping an interior wall.
“When I’m working on a problem, I never think about its beauty, I just think about how to solve the problem, but when I finish it, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it’s wrong.” – Richard Buckminster Fuller
Inside out
Geometric planes
Ordered coordinates
Sometimes the best art in an art museum is the architecture.
“Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.” – Le Corbusier
Devising common
Theoretical framework
Explanations
The seashore is pleased with simplicity.
“I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.” – Isaac Newton
Airy thought
What beginnings
What ends
Sometimes things just seem to be consummate.
“Somewhere inside this ink bottle there is a starry sky! Don’t keep the lid on your ink bottle too long.” – Robert Sund
Stewart’s
Pawn shop
TV’s laptops
Standing on the outskirts of the scene, geometrical organization emerges from a place of deep thought and great meaning.
“Can you buy an entire chess set in a pawn shop?” – Steven Wright