amon carter museum

While on the final leg of a long road trip yesterday, I visited the Amon Carter Museum in Ft. Worth, TX to see a special Polaroid exhibit. Every time I visit a museum I see pictures of my own devising everywhere. Outside the exhibit in a stairwell there was an installation that struck me as more grand than the art I went to the museum to see. It’s entitled “Plexus #34″ by Gabriel Dawe, and it’s comprised of taught dyed threads configured to fill that stairwell space with a rainbow of sorts. Is shooting a detail involving another artist’s work an appropriation? Is it a cheap shot? I don’t know how I feel about that, but I could not resist shooting this picture in that stairwell.