I once walked through an exhibit in a large American museum that displayed First Nations artifacts in old dioramas, with mannequins that hadn't been changed since the 19th century.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The dresses I wore are in the Smithsonian now.
I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time.
A walk through the storage facility of the community museum where I worked might easily have convinced you that people in the past wore only wedding dresses, carried silver candlesticks, and played with porcelain dolls.
Every museum is full of nice things. That's the opposite of before. It was important things or serious things. Now we have interesting things.
I have seen Colonial churches since I was very small, Colonial painting and polychrome sculpture. And that was all I saw. There was not a single modern painting in any museum, not a Picasso, not a Braque, not a Chagall. The museums had Colombian painters from the eighteenth century and, of course, I saw Pre-Columbian art. That was my exposure.
Some time ago, we went to Asia and took a camera along, and I began to do what I'd done even years ago doing people. I couldn't get interested in it. And I did hundreds of photographs of details of the monuments as sculpture.
Museums, I think, are becoming more and more aware of how to turn themselves into a must-see spectacle.
We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames.
I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.
What would I put in a museum? Probably a museum! That's an amusing relic of our past.