Robert Irwin

And then I was thinking about Faraday boxes, which are like sensory deprivation spaces.

And there's this artist, conceptual artist, Robert Irwin from California, who did these experiments with his friends where they would go in the Faraday box and then they would come out and everything's like heightened in your sensory experience and And I was thinking about, like, this space has felt like a Faraday box to me.

And wondering, like, how, like, I'm a little nervous I'm going to go to a homecoming parade for my kids this afternoon.

And I'm thinking, like, I'm going to be, like, so sensory heightened from this.

This one, Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees, by Lawrence Weschler.

This is the biography of Robert Irwin, who I've spoken about in other posts.

I only heard about him recently, and I found out he passed, I think it was last year, 2025 or 2024.

And his book has blown me away.

Um, I think the article's gonna explain it a lot better than me.

But I found the concept really interesting because it links into, um, the exploration I've been doing with Robert Irwin, Irving.

He, um, he inspired me to do the, the cube spaces that I did before.

Um, sorry, the, uh, the cube space that I had for the Brute opening and how that's expanding into a, um, an ongoing installation where I experiment with the question, um, how, what does peace of mind feel like in a, in a space? So that has given me a kind of new, new kind of angle to work on that.

And it's the same, I think, for the art world.

I mean, oh, light and space and this one and Robert Irwin and the Ferris Gallery and this one and the, you know, all of...

I would like to see a more genuine focus on cultural production today.

And I think there are groups in L.A. that do that very well, but they seem to operate outside of the mainstream cultural institutions here.