Anna Schuleit

I heard an interview this morning on a podcast called, The Story. The host, Dick Gordon, was interviewing an installation artist, which at first hearing, doesn't sound like a real artist at all. It sounds like something that a company dreamed up to add a sense of mystery or glamour to a very ordinary job. Subway doesn't have minimum wage workers slapping meat on bread, they have sandwich artists. An installation artist sounds like something that a plumber decided to call himself. We will have our installation artist there at ten to install your furnace. It turned out that it is a real thing. Mr. Gordon interviewed an artist named Anna Schuleit, a 2006 MacArthur Foundation Fellow and accomplished installation artist. I don't pretend to understand much about art and since I had never hear of installation art prior to this morning, I know only what I learned in the interview. As I understood from the interview, the artist's objective is to give a new meaning or a different perspective to an existing space. These are not works that can be bought and sold, but instead are for the enjoyment of the observer, if that makes sense to you. Ms. Schuleit has produced a number of works using old mental institution buildings, that pay tribute to the men and women who both worked and were treated at these facilities. I am fascinated by her 2003 work called Bloom. Ms. Schuleit recognized that the patients and staff of this sterlie institutional didn't receive many flowers over the years. She created a beautiful work of art by carpeting the old building in flowers. It is as if the the flowers that were never sent crash through the doors like a flood, settling everywhere. Anyway, nothing I can say can do justice to her work. Take a look at her site, it is well worth the time. Merle. Things in this blog represented to be fact, may or may not actually be true. The writer is frequently wrong, sometimes just full of it, but always judgemental and cranky Tag: Daily Life Personal Finance Humor