Walking on Spiral Jetty in September 2011

* an ongoing series of quotations – mostly from artists, to artists – that offers wisdom, inspiration, and advice for the sometimes lonely road we are on.

Andre Malraux famously cherished the idea of a museum without walls.  In a way, places like Spiral Jetty are jails without walls.  They are always about time, about how long they can detain or hold you.  I remember the governor of a US prison saying, of a particularly violent inmate, that he already had way more time than he would ever be able to do.  That’s exactly how the Jetty looked – like it had more time than it could ever do – even though, relatively speaking, it had hardly begun to put in any serious time.

Geoff Dyer in White Sands:  Experiences from the Outside World 

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