In 1991, Chris Burden wanted to hang a fishing boat off the side of the Seattle Art Museum, designed by Robert Venturi. Over my dead body, said Venturi. The architect is still alive. It didn’t happen.
Fifteen years later, the idea reappeared in the work of his wife, Nancy Rubins. He was thinking of something rough and working class – roots music for a city with a working waterfront. For another waterfront town, she delivered a flamboyant tiara.
Pleasure Point, 2006, nautical vessels, stainless steel, stainless steel wire. Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Photo by Pablo Mason. (Via)
I love Rubins’ giant pile of folded used dirty single mattresses that seem to reach heaven. It’s like a comment on the triumph and stain of one night stands.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. -Eleanor Roosevelt