More Outer Space Talk (Art)

 

From L'Officiel Art Winter 2021:

" I push back: Why be suspicious? Why simply not transcend all of it-- the Burn, the Black Rock Desert, the land art of the American West-- and go right to the Moon? Why not light up the Sea of Tranquility for the whole world to see? All eight billion of us. 

Villareal considers the idea for a very long beat. I can tell it's making him a little nervous, but he doesn't dismiss it out of hand. 

'Could it be an abstract artwork?' 

He's not asking me; he's telling me. 

'That's the question.' "

Search Leo Villareal's work to consider the possibility the interviewer posits.