Ralph Rugoff about Louise Bourgeois’ late textile works in the exhibition, The Woven Child.
Ralph Rugoff about Louise Bourgeois’ late textile works in the exhibition, The Woven Child.
70 inches square instead of 80 because I don’t want to have to go up and down on the stool.
Only as high and as wide as I can reach. My body as measure.
The way it is with children.
Then in the swelling and ebbing currents, these deepening tides moving out, returning,
I will sing you as no one ever has,
Streaming through widening channels into the open sea.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Book of Hours
I followed the work slowly. Hoping. Having faith that it would lead to something more true than I could have conceived of quickly.