Emily M. Danforth's Blog, page 22
December 9, 2013
likeafieldmouse:
Reece Terris - American Standard...
Reece Terris - American Standard (2004)
Artist’s statement:
“American Standard draws upon the ‘readymade’ and confronts its art-historical underpinnings (recalling Marcel Duchamp’s iconic Fountain), while imparting more than pure reference, as it extends beyond the object-oriented readymade into an architectural space. Rather than demonstrating how context produces meaning within objects, American Standard presents an environment in which objects re-contextualize their space, revealing architecture’s dependence on standardized form and socially assumed function within even the most private of public spaces.”
December 2, 2013
November 29, 2013
"There is no daytime in this room, nor night; the seasons are changeless here, and the years, and..."
There is no daytime in this room, nor night; the seasons are changeless here, and the years, and when I die, if indeed I haven’t already, let me be dead drunk and curled, as in my mother’s womb, in the warm blood of darkness.
”-
Other Voices, Other Rooms
-Truman Capote
(via trumanstreckfuscapote)
"I want curious readers. But I don’t pretend to know what most readers want these days. I guess if I..."
- Wendell Mayo (via mttbll)
November 26, 2013
November 24, 2013
"A book can make you find room in yourself for something you never thought you’d understand."
- Glen Duncan, By Blood We Live (via rebeccaschinsky)
