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Meg — January 26, 2010

Re: Clutch: This is how a gallery ends.

Unstuck Time: A Small Stage for Wandering Minds by Leslie Baum

January 16 - February 15, 2015 In 2003 I visited Angkor Wat in Cambodia. The temples and stone sculptures possessed a staggering beauty and scale, but it was the small arrangements of stone rubble at every site that really struck me. I speculated. Perhaps these still-life-like groupings and stone stacks were the work of bored tourists, of wandering minds and wandering hands? A few years later, I encountered something similar in New Mexico: arrangements of pottery shards on the dry earth of Pueblo archeological sites. Time unsticks in these moments. The ancient slips into the now. The piles, cairns, and mosaic-like images pulsate with intimacy and evidence a deep urge to play and to delight in touch, shape, form, pattern and texture. Nothing lasts, nothing is finished, nothing is perfect. This expression, associated with the Japanese aesthetic Wabi Sabi, has a far reach. I believe it encompasses these ever-so-casual tableaus placed by anonymous hands. The arrangements,

See Clutch Gallery at the Chicago Design Museum

Clutch is back at the Chicago Design Museum , and has a fancy new home in a museum case on the 3rd floor of Block 37 at 108 N State Street! Stop in to see it anytime. No appointment necessary!

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