The Journal of Vrinda Agrawal Jenny Holzer at the MCA
11/20/2008 06:51 a.m.
So i saw Jenny Holzer's work at the MCA. I like her work, but the work in the exhibit was too much for my mind to process. The flashing lights just made me dizzy. So I decided to concentrate on each separate word instead. Here's what I was 'inspired' to write:
Little dots made of light.
They combine to make a line.
The line combines with other lines to make letters.
These letters make words and usually my mind groups these to make sentences.
But today I am reading words.
My mind cannot process the sentences.
I am looking at each word separately.
Each word needs it’s own space.
The space that surrounds it and separates it from all the others.
It doesn’t want to be in a sentence. It wants to be by itself. On its own.
Today each word wants to break free.
It doesn’t want to be forced to relate to the other words and form a sentence.
Each word wants to stand for what it means by itself.
But in these bright lights, the words are losing themselves.
When the lights flash, I am forced to look away.
I am listening to Death Cab For Cutie
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