Recently I’ve been reading Sarah Thornton’s book ‘Seven Days in the Art World’ (a fascinating look at 7 venues of the contemporary art world, a book which I recommend).
One worry of collectors of contemporary art is that their collection will eventually ‘look like the archeological remains of an ancient garbage heap.’
Surely, I thought, artists must have the same concerns.
How can an artist avoid this dreadful possibility that their life’s work will amount to naught? Richard Serra, I believe, has found a partial solution to this problem. For thoughts on how Serra has done this and lots of pictures of his works,
click on this link.
The picture at right is of DAM Volunteers on a recent (2009) trip to Seattle. They are examining Serra's sculpture Wake in the Olympic Sculpture Park.
Can anyone identify the Volunteers in the picture??? Please Comment below, and don't forget your name!
(To make the picture larger, place the mouse arrow over the picture, right click and open in a new tab.)
Joe Lantz
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