And one last bit (for now) from Cabinets of Curiosities: Four Artists, Four Visions — instructions for visitors to that exhibition could almost have been written for mine.
These are “novels,” or more appropriately “autobiographies” in visual form, and an attempt to identify each object or justify its use will be as sterile as reading a novel one sentence at a time. Read these pieces for the effect the juxtaposition of objects may produce. Consider this exhibition as an excursion into the world of real things, objects directly seen, without amplification or intermediation, other than that of the artist’s hand and eye as each artist has created and guided the placement and interrelationship of the things contained within these small spaces.
— Thomas H. Garver in Cabinets of Curiosities: Four Artists, Four Visions. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000. p. 53
