Ron Gorchov
Arena, 1977
Oil on canvas
76 3/8 x 104 x 11 3/8 inches (193.9 x 264.2 x 28.9 cm)
Photo by Argenis Apolinario
To youth, it appears as if history is imminent, ever at one’s fingertips, curiously because of the blithe ignorance of the responsibility of making any. Or, if one does have jejune pretensions toward becoming gloriously embedded in the fossil record of Culture, these are quickly replaced by an impatience with the time that might take to recognize—an apostasy of influence.