#1 summer shards

Welcome to June and the first in a series of 21 posts that trace the lengthening days , lines, and steps of the season.

“I think that everyone is on his own line. I think that after you’ve made one step, the next step reveals itself. I believe that you were born on this line. I don’t say that the actual footsteps were marked before you get to them, and I don’t say that change isn’t possible in your course. But I do believe we unfold out of ourselves, and we do what we are born to do sooner or later, anyway.”

–Agnes Martin, 1976 interview published in John Gruen, The Artist Observed: 28 Interviews with Contemporary Artists, Chicago Review Press, page 82, 1991

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  1. Victoria Hasse Avatar
    Victoria Hasse

    So often in my life, I’ve known the next step and only the next step. It’s only in the passing of time –sometimes decades –that I’ve had a sense of the line. Yet, the line is there.

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