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Guyton saw it that way, too, which is why his slogan for it has long been 2+2=8.
But Guyton always considered the work medicine.
For him, and for the community.
Maybe for humanity as a whole.
We throw away things and we throw away people.
His examples of reuse salves that psychic and ecological wound.
The question today is how to keep the Heidelberg Project from the ash heap of history.
Guyton has said, The Heidelberg Project is located in an area that is broken.
But what happens when it gets fixed up?
As the urban context for the Heidelberg Project has changed,Guyton is changing with it.
Meanwhile, the neighborhood that spawned Heidelberg Project is starting to gentrify.
She adds, dryly, Its a gift to the city, which hasnt always appreciated it.
They just werent ready for what we were offering them.
But the world is catching up.
Weve had museums study our forms of engagement, she notes.
Now, they have something of the opposite problem: People who see it as something to co-opt.
What has remained constant is our vision.
And if you get onboard with it, youre welcome to the table.
Although its admittedly slightly surreal to see his work removed from its storied neighborhood context.
Ebony Haynes, director of the Martos Gallery, admits to being such a fangirl for the work.
People often make the mistake of calling him an outsider artist, but he is trained, she says.
Maybe his aesthetic leads you to think so.
She references both Joseph Cornell and William Pope.L as better comparisons.
People dont really know him as well as they think they do, says Whitfield.
In the museum, he wanted the works to breathe.
And he was always cautious to not re-create Heidelberg.
It is interesting to see the work in the context of a museum, Haynes says.
Now, people talk about it in a different way.
Its infiltrating the art world.
The Perez Art Museum Miami already has some of his works in its collection.
He has never shown at the Miami fairs before, she notes.
They have a large booth devoted to Guyton at NADA, showing works old and new, she says.
Some from his clock series, his faces series, some of the car hoods.
Tyree had the question: Can the work work in an indoor setting with white walls?
His answer was, It will work anywhere I put it.
Things dont have to stay the same.
He wants to get lost to make it be found.
Were building a legacy.
