August 31, 2006
Herman's Meadow. A Museum
...herman and Susanne are sitting together in the forest near Eschenau in the autumn, between them is a large board with a sheet of paper attached to it. As the leaves fall from the trees they glue them on to the paper, exactly where they have landed. herman comments: `we observe cverything that falls. nature has her own order and beneath this order we have now slipped this board and are fixating what happens here. one calls this coincidence, but what is coincidence? thc word coincidence is merely a crutch, which i use because i cannot identify all of the factors which determine that a leaf, as this one now, will fall on exactly this place on our board. (now we are waiting for the next leaf.) one could ask here, why we don't do more than to glue on these leaves and whether this is a task for an artist? But what could i add? any line i might add here, any change i might make, could limit the sense of that which is happening here and which we are trying to catch.'
article by Michael Fehr 1992
~There's this way blue-domers have of moving around,-looking at and appreciating, certain plants, animals, and places that must drive anyone with them who's less inspired absolutely bonkers. Our museums and cathedrals don't have walls.
Posted by Stubbornson at August 31, 2006 09:53 AM