10/23/08


Perhaps we don’t need critique but rather fantasy, not as a means of escape but as a mode of freedom, a way of activating thought. I kept imagining Sze’s installation literally drilling down through the floor, through the walls, through the ceiling, until the building itself collapsed, and then continuing on across the empty lot to the next building. And all the while everything would be perfectly placed, as though part of a Japanese tea ceremony; even the apocalypse would be carefully color coordinated.

-Daniel Baird, on Sarah Sze's Proportion to the Groove, 2005

[I think the installation was named after this poem:]

That Love is all there is,
Is all we know of Love;
It is enough, the freight should be
Proportioned to the groove.

-Emily Dickinson