Eliasson Follow-up
When I returned from London, I raved about the Weather Project at the Tate Modern. The museum’s officials wanted to extend the exhibit, but it’s shutting down today. In an article that discusses the work, Eliasson remarks, “The time after a show is just as interesting to me…because then it becomes an object of memory, and its meanings change.”
It’s funny how the Weather Project occupies a space in my memory alongside the large Japanese ceramic bowls (particularly one called Sunburst) at the Smithsonian when I was 16. That was the summer when I encountered Monet’s Water Lilies, among the throngs at the Chicago Institute of Art, yet the bowls at the Freer/Sackler in DC etched their way into my mind with their beauty. The Weather Project took this one step further just because it was completely enveloping. Ah, memory.
ToastyKen
March 22, 2004 @ 1:53 am
My favorite memory is of how other kids used to make fun of me in elementary school, and I discovered that I could just insult myself more cleverly than they just did.. and they’d stop insulting me.
The interesting thing about that memory is that I have no idea if it’s true. I don’t actually have any memory of the actual events any more. I only remember my telling of the story. And yet.. it kinda doesn’t matter if it’s true or not. It makes a good story either way.
Ah, memory.