{"product_id":"9780986420443","title":"You'll Live Again: Collages by Fifer Horwitz","description":"\u003cp\u003eI got this box of postcards for Christmas one year, and I didn’t know what to do with them. I wanted to be productive but I didn’t want to know ahead of time what I was going to produce.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArt doesn’t really have a reason, in terms of being something specific to accomplish. Now that I’m done, I can see certain themes: pacifism, being a teenager, overpopulation… I shouldn’t even tell you what they are. Because one of those themes is people who take themselves too seriously, so if I prove that by drawing your attention to manly men drinking beers or faded beauty queens, I’ll be doing the same thing I say I don’t like.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI would rather that you discover what there is in here for you, the same way that I like to discover a stash of magazines in a secondhand store in Brooklyn where you can have each one for a quarter. I never open them until I am out of the store because you only get that feeling once.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWill we live again? It would be cool to think that we do. When I look at the cover I see someone who’s in a bad place … kind of falling … those difficult feelings can be turned around. The title can also apply to the repurposing of materials in the act of collage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut, again, I may not have to say any of these things. Art is a safe place for me to express myself, and I want you to feel the same safety to think anything you want.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Architecture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49836382421232,"sku":"9780986420443","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780986420443","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}