Orange White (part 2)
continued notes on a show of Ellsworth Kelly riffs
read this one in the castle at Fujichia
SLITHERING ACROSS A FAÇADE / A REAL BARN-BURNER / INTRO TO THE PREAMBLE / A BANQUET ENLIVEN'D / NOTES / LINKS / HI
I haven’t touched my Orange White notebook in a few months but I do still add to it. Now and again a new idea for the project pops into my head, a smile slithers across my elegant façade, and I race for the notebook, which contains only riffs and riffs on the 1961 painting “Orange - White” by Ellsworth Kelly. One day I will link up and build with the Worcester Art Museum to take 6 months to develop as many of these concepts as I can for a real barn-burner of a exhibition. Until then I’ll keep filling the notebook, and when I’m done with this notebook, I will get another.
I posted about this before, and when I did I said I’d post again when I had 100 entries total. Well with yesterday’s drop of 9 new ones I think I’m at 101. So here we are.
Usually I save the links for the end but I’ll just link out the first post here. The intro post has the first half of this notebook, plus 2 levels of preamble, plus an appendix. You can skip the writing if you feel like you get the gist, and then maybe you’ll come back to it later when you’re like OK seriously what is the deal here.
[Orange White, 1961 - present (part 1]]
final ado, on a personal note:
I started the notebook in 2018 after thinking about it for years, then I wrote this initial post in June of 2020. At the time I was (we all were) cataclysmically indoors, and I remember posting with a feeling of resignation, or a sad acceptance that this exhibit is probably not going to happen. Now it’s 6 years later, wow, 6 years! and the world continues to end but I feel like the idea of this as a real thing (an IRL solo barn-burner at the hometown museum) has crept back onto the table. Sure, it’s far-fetched. But it’s back on the divine banquet of the dimly possible but possible nonetheless. I simply don’t see why not.
WHOOPS too many images for the email again!!!!! click through to read on the website: [read this in the castle at Fujichia]
