Memoirous

Sister Corita was influenced by such thinkers as John Cage and Buckminster Fuller whose philosophy was central to the Black Mountain College—that being an interdisciplinary approach to learning where the arts is integral. Sort of like: everything is connected. There was a strong emphasis on creativity and creating. Indeed, in her 10 Rules there are so many connections. Definitely for her everything emanated out of a spiritual core. She was doing art in a turbulent time. The world was at a tipping point—there was free love, rock’n’roll, the Vietnam War with its subsequent lies, assassinations, Civil Rights unrest, political upheaval. A bit like today. Yet there was a lack of cynicism as man y young people began to search for the truth. For Sister Corita there was the obvious and then the less obvious, the text and the subtext, the thing behind the thing, the message behind the dogma. So even though she is working with words, she is attempting to engage a viewer’s head and heart b...