Cornell is desperate to sustain the network by spinning it out to the far reaches of the historical past and the astronomical future.We all live in an enchanted forest.
His favorite colors suggest provincial European hotels: white, parchesi yellow, pink, and French blue gray.
Even the most severely Euclidean box by Cornell looks like an inhabited place--though its only resident may be the shade of a departed spirit. Minute variations of his ritual come to stand for all the richness of a fully lived life, especially since the ritual's contents are determined by the anxieties which drive him to loathe death in the first place. Yearning for wholeness, the picturesque grows more agitated amid the early modern period's numerous complementary agitations--social, economic, technological. Yet ruins come to rest.
Untitled (Pharmacy), ca. 1942
Box construction, 35.5 x 30.6 x 11.1 cm
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice 76.2553 PG 128
© The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation, by SIAE 2008
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