Mar 17, 2016 07:05 PM
https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/pape...t/on-fire/
EXCERPT: Throughout art history, artists’ studios are always burning down. Until only three or four decades ago, it was typical for artists to warm their workspaces with wood or coal fires. [...] Fire stories are riddled with coincidence. It is a factor of their metaphysical significance that they reshape the meaning of events around themselves. Fires are traditionally seen as omens, they are signs from above, they were preordained, and they are destined to reverberate forward into the future....
EXCERPT: Throughout art history, artists’ studios are always burning down. Until only three or four decades ago, it was typical for artists to warm their workspaces with wood or coal fires. [...] Fire stories are riddled with coincidence. It is a factor of their metaphysical significance that they reshape the meaning of events around themselves. Fires are traditionally seen as omens, they are signs from above, they were preordained, and they are destined to reverberate forward into the future....