FIGURE 31.1 Nom du Théâtre—Tara. © Trang Vu
CHAPTER 31 The Spider and the Net
A SPIDER’S NET is a pretty clear proposition. You either spin the web or you get caught in it (Figure 31.1).
For Vu, it has a different meaning, but we didn’t know what that was when embarking on the reverse critique. Whether we get there by an artist’s statement, researching the meaning of red string in cultural contexts, or just following our response remains the very issue this book hopes to address. If you only connect via mediation, information, explanation, do you really connect?
If not history, then mythology is ...
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