Synchronicity
June 5th, 2006Over the weekend at a bookstore, I picked up the June 2006 issue of Sculpture magazine. Flipping through it, I was excited to see an artwork that I had loved when I saw it in person way back in 1991 at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
It’s called Deep Station, and it is scaled-down elements of a subway station. You can walk all around it, and every stairway or track goes off somewhere out of sight. There are sounds of the subway playing. As a Midwestern girl who had an infatuation with New York City before I even visited the place, it held an automatic fascination for me. It also had a magical quality, sort of like a dollhouse or a train set, but more giant! An odd medium size. There was a not-sad loneliness that drew me in. I was mesmerized and never forgot it.
And then while Adam is looking through the magazine, he says, “Hey, one of my favorite instructors from college has a giant article in here!”
I tell him why I bought it, and it turns out his instructor is the artist who made Deep Station. Her name is Donna Dennis, and this is a link to her website, where you can see that and other works.
New Orleans is a like small town, so I’m used to discovering all kinds of links among the people I know. But it was strange to find this thread between my husband and me, this little connection over ten years before we met. He was studying art in his home state of New York back in 1991. I was a Missourian close to college graduation, visiting a friend’s family in Indianapolis and going to the museum.
I love that this little connection between our pasts is a great work of art.
-Amy
