If you had to leave your home behind and could take only one object, what would it be? Please e-mail me at cratespace@gmail.com with written description and/or visual documentation of this object. Each will be posted on this site.

Each "thing" submitted before January 7, 2009 will be transposed into a tar silhouette on a shingle for an art work entitled Stasis.

Thank you for your contribution,
Gabriel Akagawa

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Besides my familyand all of the animals...

The only thing that I have that I have carried with me for years is 

Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings 


Kristine Stiles (editor) and Peter Selz (editor)

Of all the writings about art, none resonate for me as much as the writings by artists themselves. There are certain passages, like those of Magdalena Abakanowicz, that operate on the same dreamy plane as any religious text that I have encountered. 

-B C