THOREAU, HENRY DAVID

Thoreau went to the woods to live deliberately, to front only the essential. CoCA's Vow of Non-Assignment (§2.1.5) is Thoreauvian without the cabin. The artist finds the necessary work without waiting for assignment from the gallery, the residency, the grant panel. The wood is the studio. The deliberation is the practice. The institution accepts the work after the fact. The institution does not commission. The institution receives.