#RSRSeesTheUSA Day 43: San Francisco, CA
I spent the majority of the day at SFMOMA.
It’s been a long time since I’ve spent a whole day in an art museum, and I came away with the fuzzy-headed feeling of having soaked up thought-provoking and visually interesting material all day long.
I’ve been listening to Madeleine Dore’s author-narrated audio version of I Didn’t Do The Thing Today, and she uses the metaphor of a sponge to address the reality that sometimes we need to be in absorption mode where we’re taking in new ideas and conversations, and other times we need to be in squeeze mode where we take all those ideas and conversations and put them into action out in the world.
Today was an absorb day (stay tuned for some interesting squeezing to come out of this down the line with a cool project).
To use my own commonly reached-for metaphor, this was a day of planting seeds. I don’t know how the seeds will grow yet, but I trust that they will, and I was excited to put them into my mental soil today.
Here’s a selection of “pairings” from my visit.
Pairing 1: Kerry James Marshall’s Souvenir III + Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ Untitled (America #1)
Pairing 2: Anselm Kiefer’s Wölundlied and detail
Pairing 3: Olafur Eliasson’s One-way colour tunnel, outside and in
Pairing 4: Jannis Kounellis’ Untitled and detail
Pairing 5 (which is a triad): Agnes Martin’s Untitled #9 plus zooming in
Pairing 6: Morris Louis’ Untitled with detail
Pairing 7: Tauba Auerbach’s NO and YES
The one that’s not a pairing of one sort or another is an audio snippet of Wu Tsang’s installation Moved by the Motion, which was a beautiful multisensory installation that lowered my blood pressure just to walk into.
