"IT MAKES YOU THINK ABOUT....THE CLAUSTROPHOBIA OF RELATIONSHIPS, WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE BOUND TO SOMEONE ELSE."
And so begins an article on the latest at the Tate Britain. A something or other called Cornelia Parker has taken Rodin's 'The Kiss' and wrapped it with a mile-long spool of string. The piece is now called 'The Distance: A Kiss With Added String'. Clever, huh? Rodin has never been one of my favorite sculptors, but I have to admit that a couple can't get much closer, physically or emotionally, than in the 'Kiss'.
It says Parker spent almost a week wrapping the 'Kiss". The upside is that that was a week she couldn't spend 'creating' something else. The spokesman for the Tate felt it necessary to mention that the string will be removed when the exhibit closes.
I can't bring myself to include a JPG [digital image] of the thing.