andromeda hotel
Andromeda Hotel: The Art of Joseph Cornell explores themes of nostalgia, love, desire, beauty and death, the ephemeral and the permanent. The exhibition includes an assortment of Cornell’s collages, chests and cabinets, aviaries, hotels, observatories, and celestial navigation variants.
Andromeda Hotel: The Art of Joseph Cornell, by Therese Lichtenstein
My house is like a J. Cornell assemblage. I think he would find a lot to like in my house.
The photo above does nothing for the artwork. There is much more texture and dimension than you see there.
Nostalgia is a proxy emotion. We get confused, thinking we are longing for the inaccessible past. What we are really longing for is the marvelous, which is easily accessible. If we valued memory less, we wouldn’t make this mistake.
Emphasizing the nostalgia in Cornell’s work depreciates it. Like saying the Creator was nostalgic for a prior creation.
I want to be a flaneur. Or is that a flaneuse?
metaphysique d’ephemera: magic of the commonplace
his word: eterniday: my word: mundance