The guardian is running a competition in conjunction with Bob and Roberta Smith to write a 25 word review of the exhibition that changed you life.
I just wrote a long preface to the 25 words themselves (printed below) about the summer’s day in 1999 when my father, my brother and I visited the Jackson Pollock retrospective at Tate. WordPress decided to delete it before I could publish it, but I am half thankful. In the discipline of writing just 25 words, I tried to consider what was most important, and writing much more somehow dampens what I chose to write, which is the absolute crux of why that show changed me…. so here we go.
“My father’s an art teacher, he taught me a lot. But at age 15, 1999, Jackson Pollock taught us concurrently for the very first time.”
The Deep, Jackson Pollock
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