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The idea for this piece
began as a dream. I could only remember one image from the
dream. There was a dark wooded area surrounded by a fence.
Hanging from the fence was a sign that read "ART REFUGE"
- As I got out of bed I began to think. What was in the
woods? Why was there a fence around it?
The more I thought about it, the more the dream meant to
me. It was about art itself. There is an old riddle... If
a tree falls in the woods and there is no one around to
hear it, does it make a sound? What about art? Does art
have to be witnessed by a person before it qualifies as
being art?
What if no one sees the art? Is it still
art or is it just something in the woods?
To document this concept, I made a drawing. Then I constructed
a sign that read "ART REFUGE" and I attached it
to a long bamboo pole. I then took the drawing and my sign
down to the woods where I hid my drawing in the woods and
erected the sign at the entrance to the wooded area. I took
the Polaroid photo you see here.
A description of this event was exhibited along with the
photograph at an exhibition at the Chidlaw Gallery (Cincinnati)
in 1983.
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