Re: <documenta X><blast> con-pleated space

Eve Andree Laramee (wander@earthlink.net)
Sun, 21 Sep 1997 07:48:45 -0700 (PDT)

Bracha wrote re: Lucio's EmbrAsure:
>The Thing, I wrote once, is traumatic and aching, and we do not know where
>it hurts and that it hurts. Artwork arises our desire to meet its gaze when
>it succeeds to mysteriously embody a space in the Thing; it enthralls us to
>follow its gaze, and in face of that hope to access the Thing that the
>artwork radiates, we abandon our defenses and weaves into the artwork even
>our own trauma.

Art transforms our afflictions into something we can love.

-Eve

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