Cornelia Jones' "Mass" at the Phoenix Art Museum (Photo by yours truly) |
I'm reminded of a piece I saw at the Phoenix Art Museum this past Saturday. It's by the English artist Cornelia Jones. Her companion piece, "Anti-Matter," is at my home museum, the De Young in San Francisco. What I like most is how her piece, which is made of charred bits of wood held in plane with fishing line, appears to cohere, but only sketchily so. It has the semblance of shape without actually having shape.
That's how, I've figured out, good journalism works. My major piece, on the line between reporting and advocacy, has shown me, through the interviews and research, that the obligation is to give the facts and let the readers draw their own conclusion.
To me, those facts look like this:
“You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies” by Yayoi Kusama (Photo by yours truly) |
Blink, blink,
David Andrew Tow
Terra Linda High School
San Rafael, Calif.
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