Installations
by Ilya Kilger
“Soon the girl begins to furrow her brow, to frown; then she is moving again, an object in her hands, an empty space behind her.”
On April 3, 2013, The Straddler met historian and journalist Henry Wiencek at a café in the historic 30th Street Station in Philadelphia to discuss his most recent examination of the American Founders’ engagement with slavery.
I congratulate every citizen whose understanding of this nation, of the world, will be made better and fuller by this development.”
James Wrona On May 10, 2013, The Straddler met journalist and author Kim Ghattas at a Dupont Circle café in Washington, D.C., to discuss her new book, The Secretary: A Journey With Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the Heart of American Power (Times Books, 2013).
Installation 4 (fragments) Installation 4 is a small room containing twenty-eight objects, spread out on the floor in a checkered pattern.
Think, for a moment, of the real estate broker in the age of Craigslist.
Louis Fuertes’ Sharp-Shinned Hawk Fuertes told his students, “Start with the deepest darks, and paint the rest of the bird from these first marks.
The monument’s an object, yet those decorations, Carelessly nailed, looking like nothing at all, Give it away as having life, and wishing; Wanting to be a monument, to cherish something.
The old postcards reproduced in this issue show the basilica of Notre Dame de Brebières in Albert, after its repeated shelling during the First World War.
