INSTALLATION 2:  The Artist & the Muse

 

This installation is set in a special 6’x6’ formal museum style room with a framed vertical flat screen. Viewers will have earphones for hearing sounds and music.
 

*NOTE: The Artist & the Muse may accompany my first, complimentary submission, The Artist & the News, in the same room, or stand alone. Each set of images, uniquely evocative, provocative, and stunning in its authenticity, carries its own meaning; their juxtaposition casts one to reflect on the textures of our collective times.

 

These images celebrate the powerful relationship between the Artist and the Muse. W.S. Merwin tells me that the poet John Barryman said to get down on your knees every day to worship the muse. Merwin said he meant it literally.

 

The vertical screen will present newly discovered, never-before-seen, black-and-white images of Carrie, an early, long-time muse.  As viewers absorb her subtle expressions and form, they may ponder the mysteries and inspiration propelling her movements as much as my own as I captured them on film.  Her image is joined by music. The juxaposition of these sets of images, evocative, provocative, and stunning in their authenticity, casts one to reflection on the textures of our collective times.

W.S.Merwin