Saturday, November 27, 2010

Barker

It was once believed that the writer who wrote for himself would end up speaking to himself. It was believed the writer had to write for others, i.e., using accepted practices of listening and seeing. But only the writer who truly invents for himself will acquire the audience who hungers for his invention.
—Howard Barker

Boxmaker (ii)


Joseph Cornell, Untitled (Soap Bubble Set), 1936. Box construction, 15 3/4 x 14 1/4 x 5 1/2 in. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Conn.