I enjoyed doing these two. It's a very easy idea. I did not even use a ruler. I might revisit this idea and see if I can come up with something I love.
I went to the Tara Donovan listing at the Pace Gallery. They offered the words that I couldn't come up with:
For over twenty years, Tara Donovan has created large-scale installations, sculptures, and drawings that utilize everyday objects to explore the transformative effects of accumulation and aggregation.
*Transformative effects.* I love gallery language. Transformative. You might love it or it might irritate you. I need to start using the word transformative when I need to be more diplomatic.
As a person who hoards things when there are multiples because I keep thinking that one or two would be easy to toss - but because I have 50 - they might be really cool if made them into something. Even things like bags from dry cleaning. When Patty came to pick up her first batch of flowers for the ofrenda, I only had one dry cleaning bag on hand to give her - and we agreed that there aren't many trips to the dry cleaner any more. After she left, I was wondering how hard it would be to come up with more dry cleaning bags - and - voila - there was a box in my garage labeled *dry cleaning bags.* So - I'm happy that I can use up that hoard. Oh-oh - when I opened the box - there was only one dry cleaner bag left. Note to self - record the number of items when filing the hoard.
I've veered way off topic....so will continue with Tara Donovan tomorrow.
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