I think natural disasters have been looked upon in the wrong way.
Newspapers always say they are bad, a shame.
I like natural disasters and I think that they may be the highest form of art possible to experience.
For one thing they are impersonal.
I don't think art can stand up to nature.
Put the best object you know next to the grand canyon, niagara falls, the red woods.
The big things always win.
Now just think of a flood, forest fire, tornado, earthquake, Typhoon, sand storm.
Think of the breaking of the Ice jams. Crunch.
If all of the people who go to museums could just feel an earthquake.
Not to mention the sky and the ocean.
But it is in the unpredictable disasters that the highest forms are realized.
They are rare and we should be thankful for them.
Lightning Field, 1971-77
Mile Long Drawing, 1968
Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art - org. Kristine Stiles and Peter Selz, University of California Press, California, 1996.
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