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| Heather Buchanan, artist |
What I find especially clever about this tiny art-piece is its display of chaos in a mundane form—all typically overlooked objects like fridge magnets should be so incendiary, pun intended haha. It's just so honest; we all have those moments when too many suppressed annoyances threaten to surface. Anyone who claims to be mostly serene isn't paying attention or lying in service to perfection, or perhaps shallow? Sorry to be judgy but consistently Zen types confuse me. They are unicorns and I am glad for them but I personally don't know anyone with an entirely passive amygdala. This story-in-a-fridge-magnet is a nod to authenticity. It echoes Thoreau's astute conclusion that many "lead lives of quiet desperation." Similar to Prufrock, it asks, "should I disturb the universe?"
My daughter is nearing the end of her first year as a Mom and she and her partner learned to be parents IN A FREAKING PANDEMIC. So among the toys and the diapers and her job and the weighty emotional labour and countless other things, I am glad she can have this devious cathartic moment at the fridge everyday and then carry on.
2 comments:
Oh yeah, we've all been there -- one flick of the Bic away from total mayhem!
My hat is off to your daughter and her partner and all the other parents out there who have slogged through the pandemic with their kids. I've been so thankful my child-rearing days were well over before 2020. There's so much extra stress for working parents. I love the magnet and feel that way too much of the time with my mother whose dementia shifted into a higher gear during the pandemic. The elderly is another group that has been significantly affected by isolation.
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