BA FINE ARTS
Celia Cusanno – Waiting for the White Rabbit
by Celia Cusanno
Time is taken to meticulously cover forms and materials. Gluing, peeling, folding, pasting, cutting, stamping, heating, and cooling until they border on uselessness. Freed from their original purpose, they come to exist without seeking to satisfy. Through an act of care, a way of tending to forms and materials, the work strives to hold them on a threshold that stretches out. They then escape the general flow and slow down until they come to a standstill. They remain there, far from the clamor of expectations. Between momentum and restraint, openness and withdrawal, they breathe. Later, perhaps some of them will leave. Or perhaps not.
