Tuesday, November 11, 2008

November 7th, 2008

"There is a room in Santa Cruz where the laws of gravity do not fully apply," she says as we walk past the doodlings of dead men. Meanwhile tourists (curiously, all of the same ethnicity) freely take snapshots of their children standing next to Rauschenberg's combines. Quickly the pass from one combine to the next. Soon they will move on to Ernst, then Dali, then Matisse, then their homes, then their beds.
"It all seems a bit unfair," I say.
"What, gravity?"
"No, art."