The Mural Amphitheatre

Growing up, we had a three-paneled Horiuchi collage in the living room. My parents didn’t pay much for it in the mid ’70s, and it grew to influence my favor of browns and oranges and golds. But I never liked Horiuchi’s Mural Amphitheatre at Seattle Center. First, spelling “theater” with a “tre” is fucking gay. Second, the mosaic mural itself just looks busy yet feckless, exhausting.

But, somehow, when I walked past today—maybe it was bright blue sky in the background, or maybe it was my delicious burrito—the mural was spectacular.

Here it looks lonely, refreshingly stark.

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And the collage in the living room. My dad sold it.

Update: Writes my father after reading this post…

Let’s be honest: your dad sold the Horiuchi because he was fucking broke at the time. And the gallery made him an offer he couldn’t refuse…

That’s a good a reason as any!

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