Lesson In Red by Maria Hummel
Author:Maria Hummel [Hummel, Maria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781640094321
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 2021-03-16T00:00:00+00:00
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UNLIKE THE SPRAWLING VILLAGES OF most colleges, LAAC was a single, bulging hive. Centrality and connection defined the architecture. Our drive into the parking lot today revealed the college in glimpsesâa long white walkway here, a shaded patio there, the wavy roof of the new music theater. At LAAC, you could stroll the entire campus without leaving a building, without breaking free of the schoolâs humming activity. Along the way, the ghostly tracks of its illustrious alumni crisscrossed your pathâthis was a MacArthur Fellowâs studio once; that was the stage where an Oscar winner had made his debut. Every doorknob on campus had been touched by someone famous.
LAAC was a pressure cooker, an incubator, and a chrysalis. Although my young alumni friends ranged in personality and background, they all had one thing in common: they questioned everything but the value of art. If theyâd arrived at the school with faith in some other higher purposeâhonoring God, their parents, their culture, money, loveâthey left the school with that certitude in tatters. Instead, art sewed their existence together. For this conversion, theyâd gained a tremendous education and an ability to see into our culture, to dismantle it, to find the reasons behind the reasons. In conversation, they could unravel an average person like me. Yet the change came at a cost. An ordinary lifeâworking at any dull or obligatory job, marrying, buying a house, raising kids, even wanting wealth at allâwas, for an LAAC grad, no longer acceptable as a means for happiness. You could do it, but you might betray your true nature. Far better to starve and self-deny than to yield to a life of quiet desperation. This transformation was Halâs real legacy. His masterpiece. Itâs one thing to influence culture with your paintings or sculptures, but to transform hundreds of young men and women, one by one, into new creatures in your own image? That is the work of a Creator.
Janis was waiting in the parking lot with her driver. She hopped out as soon as we pulled up. She did not look ill. In fact, she looked like she was refusing to look ill, all wound up in her blue pantsuit and huge round sunglasses. Yet the sight of her stabbed me.
âWeâre late,â she said, although we werenât. âShall we go in? Iâll brief Maggie on the way.â With a nod at Ray, she put her hand on my arm and steered me over the asphalt. I realized Iâd never walked beside Janis. Most of the time Iâd stared up at her behind a podium. Her dark, curly head came to my shoulder now, and there were sparse patches of scalp that shone in the sun, but her grip was strong and her stride quick and forceful. She radiated energy and determination as she launched into telling me about Steve Goetz and Hal Girouxâs secret plan to build a massive free museum for Goetzâs contemporary art collection two blocks away from the Rocque. âTheyâre already in negotiation with the city for building permits,â she said.
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