"...If you are brave enough"

 

Tara Donovan's artwork, built by layering

 white buttons on top of each other

 

 

 

 

Artworks like this, reminds me of the experience of reading poetry.

 

The words building up the poem are familiar words, letter I make use of everyday.

But suddenly, organized and grouped under a enigmatic spell, the familiarity opens up the

world of uncanny images and meanings.

 

I appreciate Tara Donovan's work in such a way. It presents itself with a smile of a blue fairy from Pinochio, all knowing and somewhat light hearted.

 

Her work also reminds me of something that my old university tutor told me.

 

That you will be able to make something that was never before, ...if you are brave enough.

 

Arranging one piece of button on top of each other, is a motion that is more like playing than creating. Donovan must have went through the same movement repeatedly in order to create her work. There is even a sense of ridicule in it. A fool, obsessed with a meaningless task.

 

Perhaps in the act of creating something new, one experiences something that is very akin to feeling rediculed. Artist has to bear the sense of meaninglessness while she's in the process of weaving out a new meaning out of it.