What if every artist made a love pact with something, anything, in the natural world? Mr. Goldsworthy, we noted after a recent post, had already made (to our eyes, a similar cairn included) such a pact a long time before his Australia work. Mr. Franzen, as we shall highlight as often as we can here, has made such a pact with birds. Walton Ford, in phantasmagorical manner, check. And this fellow, on the sands down under, too. More!
We are going to follow our colleague(s) at http://myothervoices.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/jonathan-franzens-glasses/#comment-299, in case any other inanimate objects voice what it is like to be with Jonathan Franzen when he is birdwatching. Binoculars? Coffee thermos? The tent he used on the island off Chile’s coast?
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