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The piece’s title suggests children on rainy days using cushions and blankets to make a private space within a larger, communal space. The world has thwarted their plans, so they’ve raised an edifice as a form of play. Says Uretsky: “There’s no end to how children play, it’s actually their way of problem solving.” Children don’t “solve” the weather, per se. They innovate. They make something new and weird. A key pleasure of Uretsky’s work is its celebratory, innovative weirdness, manifest most clearly in its central sculptures. Uretsky says, “I love sculpture for its expanded (and expanding) definition. It’s a form that isn’t always fighting its history. Sculpture runs analogous to postmodern feminist practices: It’s communal. It’s plural. It’s of the body, or at least in conversation with the body.”
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