Still Life with Stone and Car, Jimmie Durham
“I have the idea that there’s something about visual art - that is, the intellectual part of visual art - that is away from language, and that its value is that it’s away from language. It’s a knowledge that is not connected to language. When I have some great experience with a work of art, something that I love, something like Monet’s paintings or some really good stuff, the importance of it, what’s moving to me, what changes me is the part that’s knowledge away from language, that can’t be explained in language, and it makes me feel suddenly free. Because, I think because, at least partly, I am suddenly free of this prison of words, the prison of language.”
Some hard hitting writing work with ultra-digestible/fun/exciting writing from the Native American sculptor, essayist and poet.
