About Life
She built wondrous edifices that often felt and looked better from the inside than the outside.
As she got experience her work became purer, revolutionary in its sparseness,
We will find it most clearly in her own home. she is in every way a life work.
You discover you wish to be at one location at noon, another at twilight, some when you are young, others that you will appreciate later in life. It is a complex and also a subtle place, so subtle that there is the famous story about the visiting guest who said, looking over the house, “but she – wouldn’t this be a lovely place to turn into a live home?” It was, said by her, the best compliment she ever got.
Every artist works on a different scale. A page. A painting. A sonata. A film. A novel. A house. A garden. But essentially they all create, in some ways, self-portraits of themselves. Art is a long intimacy. The scale of the achievement might be grand and take years but it has to be personal and carefully pieced together and specific to its culture. With all the chaos of love there, and the rains, and the termites.
