If it is the job of artists to open doors to the unknown it is also the job of the artist to open the door to an audience to share how they have tried to transform the edge of mystery into a shape and form of an idea. Thanks to everyone who came out this weekend to take a look and chat whether or not they took home any treasures. Sending out invitations to our home exhibit is like casting a net--we never know who we might catch.
It is the job of artists to open doors and invite in prophesies, the unknown, the unfamiliar; it's where their work comes from, although its arrival signals the beginning of the long disciplined process of making it their own. Scientists too, as J. Robert Oppenheimer once remarked, 'live always at the 'edge of mystery'--the boundary of the unknown.' But they transform the unknown into the known, haul it in like fishermen; artists get you out into that dark sea.
--Rebecca Solnit
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