moderation

Art. That wasn’t a sentence but I suppose it’s a good starting point. Art is everything to me and having transferred from art school to Bard I find that it’s importance to me has only grown. The best way I can explain to you how meaningful art is to me especially its history is to recall an anecdote that I consider the turning point of my life. I was nine or ten in the Smart Museum of The University of Chicago walking through the galleries when I came across a Rothko color field. I stopped for a very long time. A pause that was infinitely long for a child demanding persistent stimulation. Then breaking my silence, I asked my father “is that art?” The question was certainly rhetorical because I knew that I must have been given the amount of time I spent focused on it. My father’s answer, a simplification of the history of minimalism, has been the reason why I care so deeply about the history of painting.