Fizzy Milk #88
Alarm. Clock.
Richard Serra, The Matter of Time, 2005
OK, I’m back. Missed a week again but will do my best to be better. In general, I’m quite scared of things that make me feel really tiny and insignificant: space, the ocean etc. etc. Richard Serra’s big wonderful sculptures definitely do this but VERY INTERESTINGLY in a good way. They kind of make you feel like a borrower on an adventure not like you could be squished by an asteroid or fall off a mountain some day.
I like that he both creates and takes away space. This work is nice because it’s made of several big pods, and acts like a kind of maze. Wander around in the art, get lost in the art, wonder about how someone actually makes something like this. Love it!
As well as being afraid of very big, impossible to understand things, I am also scared of: phone calls out of the blue; when you’re sitting with a big group of people and everyone goes quiet and you’re frantically trying to think of something to break the silence with; running out of battery and not knowing where I’m going; thinking I’m home alone and singing the entire Wicked, the musical soundtrack but it turns out I’m not alone and all of my housemates have been listening to me; walking past big groups of teenagers; going to a party where I don’t know anyone and, you know, death.
Congrats you’ve made it to the end! Todah Rabah.
Eleanor x