Despite of having worked intensely and in a flow like state of mind during the days in Lobo, the best was still to come.
What I did not know before, was that visiting Marfa would be the big WOW effect: it was the first time I witnessed the power of art. Like in a laboratory; in a controlled environment.
We had been travelling through Texas for a while and there was definitively one kind of recognizable pattern all over the place. And then you come to Marfa and … everything is different. Different architecture, different people, different food, different conversations, different life concepts, different work concepts, different questions, different everything. Galleries everywhere, a big book shop and you can even rent yourself bikes and polaroid cameras … In the middle of nowhere you find this completely amazing culture in this small town. The only difference being that it has been infected by the arts virus a couple of years before.
I never noticed the isolated power or art before. We take it for granted here in Europe as we take much more for granted that has been fought for by older generations. That is unfortunate. We are visually flooded on all kind of channels and it is difficult to say what was first. What is cause and what is effect.
But cause and effect were clearly layed out in Marfa …
I do not like to use this exclamation too much, as I feel it is being widely abused, but I definitively see the world a little different now! And it does make a huge difference to me and my work.
Some links for further information:
Marfa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97uWR8e0dDo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lryy7YBhM4A&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36tmOSqXJ-U&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtfwtckigKQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8oeK3pY3Z8&NR=1
Prada
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK37lwXqNaU&feature=related
Food Shark, Marfa Texas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy53Hx_pDjo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-MG8cRiDC4&NR=1
Chinati Foundation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3CY0JaH5ws&feature=fvw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aFGYD7Fc48&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lryy7YBhM4A&feature=related
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