Untitled 2009 - 2011

John Gossage made this photograph, we don’t know when, using film, paper, and chemistry. It's the light that grabs me first, so soft, like it's been filtered through a screen. I imagine Gossage wandering around, just looking, until he found this spot. Maybe he was thinking about the way we mark our territories, with fences and walls, keeping some things in and others out. Or maybe he was just drawn to the light and the shadows, the way the textures play off each other. That rope hanging there, what’s it doing? Is it holding something up, or just waiting for a purpose? It’s kind of beautiful, the way it loops around itself, like a little puzzle. It reminds me how, as artists, we're all just fumbling around, trying to make sense of the world, one little gesture at a time. We see something, and then we make something, and hopefully it opens up a space for someone else to see something too.