When I’m at a loss for hope, inspiration or general confidence in the idea of being an artist I go and delve into the minds of those academics who have gone through the selection process to have their musings published in a contemporary art journal. Today I was not disappointed. In the summer edition of Afterall, published by Central St Martins College of Art and Design I came across Francis McKee’s essay on Minerva Cuevas.
Human undertanding and the relationship with animals is explored as a way of viewing the work of Cuevas. I’ve read it twice today and I can’t say how overjoyed I was to find references for commodity and consuming, museums and ideas of presentation, social unrest, camera obscura and the work of Ayn Rand; all of which have been floating around my head for the past year or so.
I’m so excited by this discovery I don’t have the discipline to make sense of it in a blog post. All of the strands of reference that contribute to the beginnings of my understanding are floating like single stands of a web floating in the breeze, expectant of a venue to create. I feel that this essay is a strand that has attached itself and now I can begin to weave my web. From here I can spiral outwards.
