A Line Made by Walking

Author:Sara Baume
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

In a different gallery, I ascend a timber staircase up to a concrete floor. It’s empty; they are always empty. My footsteps echo. There’s a table with some catalogues and a guest book in the corner; there are artworks. Today, I need so badly to be inspired by them, even though I hate that word: inspiration. It crops up in too many advertisements, politicians’ speeches, Disney films, its meaning obliterated. I refuse to be ‘inspired’ in the same insipid way that ad executives and politicians and Hollywood producers suggest I should be. What I need from these works is to be reminded of why I used to care about art—so much that I’d try and make it for myself.

I begin slow-stepping around the concrete. A series of black-and-white photographs. Each printed large as a door. Depicting a dry-stone wall or a section of dry-stone wall or a vista of dry-stone walls. But size is not force. My pace picks up as I weary of walls.

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