#487 Containers

The top edge of the panel has holes to hold four roses. Small water containers are included that can be attached to the flowers (not included) on the back. When the work is exhibited, the roses can be left to dry, or they can be watered and replaced as desired.

Art is a container. Reality is the content.

To experience the world around us, we must understand it to a certain degree. We need to fit what we see into categories. A kind of linguistic container. Seeing and experiencing is a linguistic process. But language does not exist in itself. It exists only in the structure organising our sensations, or the form we give reality when speaking, writing or making images. Neither structure nor language exists without something physical and material. It is in this paradox that we find ourselves. Inside the container of language - which consists of nothing but its content.