Most of it was there before I moved in,
and I've never met most of the artists.
I'm moving out very soon, so I decided to make a contribution to the house... a parting gift, I suppose.
Basically, I painted blue rectangles in the hallway.
This is what they look like:
Yes, I know... They don't even look like murals.In fact, they're just blue rectangles, and most of the people walking by won't give them a second thought.
They're more than that to me, though...
I think of them as frames for future paintings.
When I walk through the hallway, I slide my fingertips across them, wondering when someone will see them as canvases, and I'm looking forward to this stranger's inspiration.
And this day will definitely come.
Some day, some stranger will paint on my blue rectangles.
It will make me a little bit sad, because they'll no longer be how I made them, with endless possibilities.
Instead, they'll be the platform for one person's art...
When that day comes, I think I'll be ready for it, but not today.
Today, the platform itself is art.
But to you, they might be just rectangles, so it's time to finish my postmodern rambling...
I painted blue rectangles in my house.
I spent an afternoon and an evening on them.
To most people, they are just rectangles.
But to someone, they will be frames.
One day, these frames will hold that person's art,
But for now, the frames are the art.
4 comments:
I think that they are a stage or a canvas to build on-that we all are setting stages in life that are building places for life and others-will it be easy or hard to make something from a blue rectangle? I think it is a kind and generous place..just like the one that painted it..I love you will...G
ohhh I love you too Gina, and I'm so glad that you visited this blog
Update: during construction on the house this summer, one of the rectangles, the largest one, was destroyed.
update: some time since 2007, the rest of the rectangles have been painted over with the same off-white color they used in the rest of the hallway. I don't yet understand what was the reasoning for this. For the first one that was removed, the biggest one, it was seismic retrofitting. I plan to inquire at Stanford to find out when and why the rest of them were removed.
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