Framed | Squaw Valley, Lake Tahoe, California | Dec 2008

Continuing the images from Squaw Valley, the Olympic Ice Pavilion at High Camp in the mountains…

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Jörg Colberg of Conscientious, Consuming versus Experiencing Art:

If I am familiar with some artist’s earlier work, comparisons with that work are probably inevitable. I suppose this is just what we humans do.

… Part of the enjoyment that I get from following art is to see – or maybe “experience” is a better word – this evolution, which, it needs to be said, happens in tandem with myself changing in time (even though those kinds of changes are much harder to see for me). So when after a few years I come across some artist’s new body of work, and it really looks just like an older one I believe my thought “Wait a minute, this looks exactly like the older work” is triggered by this whole complex, by an unease with something being “just not right”, by running into, yes, stasis.

Of course, an artist could be perfectly happy doing the same work over and over and over again, and there are many very famous examples. There’s nothing wrong with that, except that it’s not what I’m looking for in art.