24 Days of Making, Doing, and Being: December 5
On hope.
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The other day, I was reading a newsletter from the artist Maira Kalman. She had made an enormous, hand-painted curtain for David Byrne’s musical American Utopia1 a few years ago, and after having served its role, the art had been returned to her. What exactly is one to do with a Broadway-sized curtain of hand-painted art? Kalman set about cutting it into individual pieces.
The curtain pieces were beautiful, but this isn’t what caught my eye. All the way down at the bottom of the email as her sign-off, Kalman had written, “with a reasonable amount of faith in good things.”
I immediately jotted this down in my notebook.
A reasonable amount of faith in good things.