not crazy about that void.

that large space right in the center of MoMA is a bit annoying, to me. it is big and boxy and odd. as if the museum had just inhaled a gigantic breather of new york air. what would happen if it exhaled now. would the masses of german tourists trolling in its halls be blown out into the streets? i snuck out to take a walk in the galleries around lunch time. roughly lunch time, at least. in the szarkowski exhibition, front and center, a photograph i know quite well. it is the inside of a pick up cab, plasters with stickers, one of Vincent Borrelli's photographs. We have never met, Vincent Borrelli and I, but he is the person I trust most when it comes to art books. He just knows a lot. He really opened my eyes to a good group of excellent photographers. I had to write him right away. I mean, his work was right there, right in the center. I wanted to call him, but I had made a point of not carrying my phone on me. (Imagine, being disconnected. focussed. no phone, no camera, just reality. intoxicating.) On my way to the office, walking through the reading room at MoMA, I ran into Monika Sosnowska, the space altering artist from Warsaw, now here in preparation for an installation at MoMA this fall. She flew in from Warsaw. What could be the odds of just running into her like that? Hmm. It was a bit of an odd conversation we had in Polish. My polish is just getting worse and worse. or maybe that's just a lame excuse for me not having anything interesting to say. She told me about that new gallery I really want to visit now. Though I can't. I do not remember the name. It is supposed to be in an apartment space on 29th street? Hmm... how will I find out. German Curator? What is the name of that gallery? i still do not particularly like that void in the center of MoMA. but. as we gain more knowledge, and experience more, the circumference of our knowledge becomes larger and larger, making us realise that the more we know, the more there is we are aware of not knowing. i know that i know nothing is a bit of an expression of that. however, the more we know, the more likely it is that we will encounter particles of knowledge known to us, or related in some way to something known to us, thus creating a much better gravity for further knowledge? making new acquisition of knowledge easier. so the cloud grows (or should it be swiss cheese?) and it becomes apparent that there is much more to know, but at the same time it becomes easier to accumulate more, making the cheese (cloud) bigger. now take out the center of it all... and i am still not crazy about that atrium. i sometimes feel like all i have is some sort of center that is filled with a very strange gas like substance. weird.