The New York Times on Cecilia Vicuña's 'North American Moment'

For the New York Times, Ray Mark Rinaldi talks to poet, writer, and artist Cecilia Vicuña, who is "having a new North American moment" as a major solo exhibition travels to Miami. From this piece:

While the public’s attention may have shifted in recent years, the artist notes that her work has held to the same themes for more than half a century, going back to a certain January day in 1966, when she was 17. She vividly recalls standing on the beach in Concón, Chile, not far from her hometown, Santiago, and in the shadow of an oil refinery that had been built on an ancient Andean ritual site.

She suddenly became aware of how every object and action in the universe was connected. She picked up a stick, turned it vertically and stuck it in the sand. It was that moment, she said, when her art began.

“When I look at these little things, I immediately see in them what they want to be, what they can be,” Ms. Vicuña said. “I see this potentiality of place, of balance, of asymmetry. This is what moves me.”

Read more at the NYT.