invention – The Trailer Park MFA

Creativity as Defiance

When it feels like you’ve got nothing left, make it up as you go. Create a new world. And dare to believe in it.

I love this painting. It hangs on a white wall in a spare black frame in the Museum of Modern Art at 11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan. Kazimir Malevich painted it, probably in 1912, amidst Russia’s bloody and prolonged transition from imperial state to democratic republic. With Russia’s loss of the Russo-Japanese War in 1905,Continue reading “Courage in All Its Forms”