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Annabel Daou on Suzanne Bocanegra

Rachel Nackman — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:08:26 +0000

Thinking about the title of the poem by Wallace Stevens, Not Ideas About the Thing But the Thing Itself, I made this response from one sheet torn from my little (8″ x 5″) notebook. I wanted to let my first encounter with the piece, my first view of it, and my “notes” on this encounter become the response itself.

William Corbett on Annabel Daou

Rachel Nackman — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:21:41 +0000

House of Toast

House of Notebooks

House?

Apartment of Toast

Apartment of Notebooks

Is this Mute speaking? Art that engages me communicates quickly in words that may be mine—as if I could own words—but that begin with the art. I wouldn’t think these words were I not looking at what has caused the words to speak. If I’m with someone or if I will write about the art, I speak the words aloud or write them on paper.

Looking at Mute, Wonder Bread and slabs come to mind. Also, later, visions of buildings that have been bombed and whose exposed floors sag. Or the aftermath of an earthquake. Mute either cannot speak or refuses to. Either the drawing is of buildings or structures collapsing, held together by tape, or of buildings sustained by tape, buildings that stand mute.

Annabel Daou on Joan Witek

Rachel Nackman — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:05:32 +0000