Anodyne
Sunday, April 29, 2007
 
Injunction, 2007

Waiting at the edge of a busy urban crosswalk with an automatically controlled pedestrian signal.

Dressed unobtrusively, posture relaxed, not visibly calling attention to myself.

Standing still for sixty minutes, alternately obeying and disobeying the signal's command.

JW: "I like the term 'painting of modern life,' but I don't use it as a formula, as total identity. It's a very interesting way to think about what you're doing. Basically it means using the standards that have emerged over a long time, very high standards one hopes, and the memory that recognizes the existence and importance of those standards, and applying it to the now. That doesn't mean that 'painting of modern life' means just 'scenes off the street.' It means phenomena of the now that are configured as pictures by means of this accumulation of standards and skills and style and so on. That means that there are no single themes, genres, or anything else that [could] be called 'painting of modern life.' 'Painting of modern life' is an attitude of looking, reflecting, and making."
- posted by cjb @ 11:52 AM


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