Appropriation (a poem)
Recurated, restaged, ready-made
representation.
Is interaction expected in
contemporary art?
Manifested, replicated, revelatory,
delusion.
Was pre-industrialized nature similarly
spiritual?
Geonarratives of afilial―
Touristic everymen in―
Religio-historic geography as is.
Nothing says presumed fecundity like
presumed fecundity.
Transition to architectural antidotes, to designer
fixes:
KusKus teak antiques, Venetian lanterns, Orientalized
bay windows.
Each exotic, controlled, other, at home away from home. Her work is a
pilgrimage.
Travel while reclining, snow splashing. Her work is a
pilgrimage:
Of World’s Fairs, Tiffany interiors.
Of tastemaking and hegemony.
*Everything here also appeared in the Minneapolis Art Historians Colloquium of 2016 (in my head or in someone’s talk)
