“I have lived in the South all of my life and have always been fascinated by the infinite variety of the usual, the undistinguished. There are only so many world wars, mass murderers, Nobel prize winners, but there are never ending varieties of familiar ordinary. These give us a virtual census of place, of our society as a whole, the things we have in common.They are the familiar rituals we repeat time and again without thought. “Out of the ordinary”, by definition, tells us what we are not. The commonplace tells us what we are.”
- Dale Kennington: Subjective Mythologies
Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art
Auburn University, Auburn, AL
June 13, 2009 through September 26, 2009
