Worth the Wait
I’ve been planning to revisit a particular show for months! The little and big things of life delayed my fuzzy plans. Poking my head back into the Art Institute’s galleries recently, I was struck by the opening text of this lovely show:
“It took millions of years for the creation of the earth and for nature to form beautiful green hills and valleys, bubbling brooks and magnificent tall trees, but even though we have abused it all of late, it has been well worth waiting for.
History tells us it took hundreds of years for the continent of Africa to regain its stolen freedom and independence and [despite] the fact that there are three areas still struggling for liberation, it was well worth waiting for.”
-Kwame Brathwaite
