Mass MOCA’s building is itself a huge landscape, but the artist Clifford Ross contributed a giant one, Maria almost disappeared standing in front of it. I have never seen a more evocative space for the showing of art. I always loved art from a distance, but Maria has brought me into the world of artists and museums in a new way, and I love it very much.

We love rushing off to this or that museum, we wander around until we get tired or distracted, we don’t study too much or get too heavy about it. We stay for an  hour or two, we drift around, stopping if something grabs either of us. Maria is a sensual person, she needs to see art, she needs to go see art to refuel herself, to replenish her creative energy, I enjoy seeing how museums like Mass MOCA just fill her up.

We are within easy driving range of three museums, the Clark and the Williams College Museum, both in Williamstown, Mass. and Mass Moca, just a few miles from there. Our small town is ringed with treasure – Saratoga, Vermont, Massachusetts, museums,  all minutes away.

We don’t quite know why we haven’t been discovered yet, some of us are praying we are, most of us are praying we are not. We have everything we need here, and a special thing that we need – a quiet space to get away from the things we need and see the mists on the mountains every morning and hear ourselves think.