passim_ 26 days: up, and so to bed (the miracle, the mirage)

THURSDAY

It’s not like it was a big effort, or that I felt I was failing. I’m very pragmatic. I can do what I can do, my life is my life. If I’m not Henry James, then, well fine. I could be the Rod McKuen of the curatorial world instead. Still, lists, half-page sentences. They were cool. I tracked stuff. But, you know, they end. Ended. That self I was making, that ‘I’ that was making that self, where’d it go? Where’d those people go? Car ride?

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Thursday, duskish The miracle of you crawling out of yourself, face first. Unlocking those joints. Freeing those knuckles.

 

Image: Consuelo Cavaniglia, Untitled, 2018, grey mirror, board, timber, orange acrylic, frame 101 x 68 cm Courtesy of the artist and Station Gallery, Melbourne. Photograph: Jack Willett

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Robert Cook

Robert Cook is Curator of Contemporary Design and International Art at the Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA). His exhibitions for AGWA include Swamp Op: Brent Harris, Mari Funaki, Works 1992–2009, Under God’s Hammer: William Blake Versus David Shrigley; Ryan Trecartin: Six Movies and Comic Tragics: The Exploding Language of Contemporary Comics.