The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of my favorite museums to visit.  I could (and did) spend an entire day there enjoying the art, the exhibitions, the architecture, and a delightful lunch in the cafe that overlooks the Sculpture Garden and the city beyond.  I never cease to be entertained as I overhear visitors comments regarding the contemporary work.  Seriously, some of it IS nutty!

While visiting MoMA two years ago, I purchased their gorgeous coffee table book, The Masterworks of Modern Art.  While reading the introduction to the book, written by MoMA’s Director, I discovered a quote which struck me,

“By locating objects and people in time as well as space, the Museum is constantly mapping relationships between works of art and their viewers, so that the space of the Museum becomes a site of narration where many individual stories can be developed and realized.”  

Of course, museums strategically place the art and the visitors in galleries (and those benches aren’t just for your tired feet, those benches are also there for your brains to sit and contemplate art!), but the words that popped for me were RELATIONSHIPS and INDIVIDUAL STORIES.  When you adore or detest a painting or sculpture, you have chosen your relationship with the piece. And, then, you can be super entertained, giving the piece of art your own wild story (especially the modern stuff).

On my blog, I often write the detailed story behind the creation.  It would be nice, however, for the VIEWER to write the story behind my piece.

So let’s try this… I challenge my viewers to create your own story.   Here are two recent pieces to divulge.  Created with acrylic, vintage book pages and paper.    Two ladies, two rooms, two color schemes, two situations.  They might be in the same house, they might be worlds apart.  Be creative. You don’t have to share.  Hate it or love, write the story.  Share it with a friend or family.  And make it interesting! I call them ‘Waiting’ and ‘Wondering’… but I am not going to tell you which one…is which.