American - Artist | July 29, 1950 -
I'd paint long strips of canvas and abandon them on the beach, or put bread out in geometric patterns for the pigeons downtown. I wanted people to find something nice and intriguing to puzzle over. Then I'd go back to see if the things were still there, or if anyone would notice.
Jenny Holzer
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I'd been doing projects outdoors for the public. I made pigeons eat geometry by putting bread out in rhomboids and triangles. I don't know if this activity made sense, but the work was available.
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It's fun wandering around other people's minds.
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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.
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I wanted to support things that are helpful to people and maybe bash what I think is dangerous. So I switched from being everybody to being myself.
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Protect me from what I want.
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The epiphany for me was that I wasn't a writer, and I had to do something with these texts. I put them in the streets as posters.
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I really like doing the laundry, because I succeed at it. But I loathe putting it away. It is already clean.
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One thing that changed when I moved upstate was that I became interested in different materials. I started making the stone benches because I was seeing rocks.
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The desperate things seem to require attention, the lovely things seem to elicit celebration. If I had to choose, I would go to the awful in the hope that doing something could yield a happier result.
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It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it's borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate.
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Lack of charisma can be fatal.
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