Quote #6

If I had to insert a picture, I would put a picture of the Gramsci monument and people working inside.
The whole monument relates to the quote by Gramsci ” The dry twigs are indispensibile for making the log burn, but not in and of themselves. Only the log, by burning, changes the surrounding from cold to warm” in the sense that without action nothing changes. The quote relates to the start of a movement and the people who help, as the most important factors. Those people are the ones who can change things. The Gramsci monument, a collaboration of plywood, duct tape and other things, show how the artist, Thomas Hirschhorn, starts something and the residents nearby help finish or collaborate with him on the monument; either by helping out (volunteering/working) or by adding their own artwork. I would relate Thomas Hirschhorn as “dry twigs”, the residents as “the log”, and the whole monument as “burning”.
Kelly Ip