Arboretum

For over twenty-five years David Byrne has focused his unique genius upon forms as diverse as disco architectural photography and PowerPoint. Now he presents what may be his most personal work to date a collection of drawings and diagrams mapping the strange corners of his mental landscape. Its an eclectic blend of faux science automatic writing satire and an attempt to find connections where none were thought to exist a sort of self-therapy allowing the hand to say what the voice cannot. Irrational logic its sometimes called. Its the application of logical scientific rigor and form to basically irrational premises. To proceed carefully and deliberately from nonsense with a straight face often arriving at a new kind of sense. The world keeps opening up unfolding and just when we expect it to be closed to be a sealed sensible box it shows us something completely surprising. Byrnes enigmatic enchanting collection teaches us that there is absolutely no reason to discount anything of any type anywhere.