Making Space in the Spaces

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There are times in the museum/art museum when you become aware of where you need to put your body, and where your body is in relation to others, be they people, images, objects, architecture, signage ........ I started to feel the intensity of what surrounded me and at these times it is easy to become more passive and to stop looking or engaging with attention and curiosity. The spaces can pass by, you can drift, ideas not permeating deeply but rather grazing the surface of you or your thinking. Rather than the lens of the 'pedagogical art object' I started to blank areas out, really simply with a felt disc. It was like a moment of saying 'shhhhh' to the surrounding of opulence, significance, history, meaning. In that moment of observation I wanted to blur my focus slightly or create a different focus. A temporary breath. Even the shadows recast themselves onto the disc- and I enjoyed the stubbornness of it.
I have started to see the gaps be it physical or conceptual between the things I am asked to view-it is these in-between spaces that hold significance for me - they are a space to fill with subjectivity, with speculation and provocation.