Blogged about the public’s interaction with the art and how it’s going. So here goes…
As always when you let people touch things, some of those things break. This is an issue the Museum anticipated and as expected some breakage has happened. Luckily so far nothing major or drastic has happened and we have dealt with things as they have come.
With that said so many things that we could not predict have begun to happen. To not be able to predict the public’s interaction and start to see it unravel has been the most exciting part of this curatorial process so far. In Ober’s, The Green Century, I expected the public’s paintings to closely mirror those created by Ober; this is not the case at all! The paintings done by you guys look like wild green Pollock’s as opposed to controlled spirograph drawings.
In Wes Bruce’s installation, The Secrets Surrounding the Life and psychology of Ms. Augustine Greane, you have been captivated, spending copious amounts of time disappearing into its many secreted rooms. When inside the structure people change, become more comfortable, more childlike and open. I have taken part in story telling sessions and conversations that would never have transpired outside of the forts walls. In addition it has come to my attention that Wes hid and tucked away so many secret treasures in the fort that I do not know about and am now eagerly searching to find them.
What have you found so far?
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