Voyeur | September 27, 2003


I had an hour to kill the other day and spent it at the Weisman Museum of Art.

They had just put out two new (well, new to them and me) Georgia O'Keefe paintings. What I love to do when I see an O'Keefe in person is get really close, and then get totally lost in her brushwork. Somehow with her paintings, the subject matter doesn't matter. It's the strangely precise, yet flowing lines of her brush strokes that are important to me.

Getting this close, with no glass between me and the work feels embarrissingly intimate somehow. Like I've gone to a secret place that I shouldn't really know about. I keep looking over my shoulder nervously, expecting to be kicked out for vagrancy or something. But then I think "Hey, this is what your supposed to do in museums."


Permission.


Art is so cool.


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