I came to love Chicago as one only loves chosen or lost cities.
Margaret Anderson
My Thirty Years War, 1930
Artist Statement
Like editor and publisher Margaret Anderson, quoted here, I also migrated to, and then emigrated from, Chicago. I’m back in the city on a regular basis, however, and arrivals over Lake Michigan and the city’s grid of lights before landing never cease to elicit awe and wonder. Chicago’s a complicated city, chosen and lost in equal measure, but it remains the kind of place where a broke writer like Margaret Anderson can start an avant–garde literary magazine like The Little Review at a time like the 1910s. Here Margaret’s words are plotted cartographically, the city’s grid and errant diagonals burned into a photograph of the lake that I took out of the plane window on my last Chicago trip a few months ago.
Art Design Chicago
The Great Ideas in this section of the exhibition features great ideas from Chicagoans interpreted by Chicago artists and designers. These works are presented as part of Art Design Chicago, an initiative of the Terra Foundation for American Art exploring Chicago’s art and design legacy, with presenting partner The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation.
Great Ideas at ChiDM, 2018. Photo: The Office of Experience.
Learning Lab at Chicago Cultural Center, 2018.
