"Most of us go through the world never seeing anything. Then you meet somebody like Herb and Dorothy, who have eyes that see. Something goes from the eye to the soul without going through the brain."
- Richard Tuttle
Looking at Tuttle's drawings in the Blanton's exhibition of a small portion of Herb and Dorothy Vogel's collection this past weekend, I instantly felt both relief and envy, or perhaps more accurately, admiration, in imagining my own work in dialogue with his. Relief that he is the one with the lightest touch. And envy, or admiration, that he is the one with the lightest touch.
If you haven't seen the documentary about Herb and Dorothy yet, make a movie date. Their story is one about two regular people with regular jobs and a regular life, who just really love art.
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