OLAFUR ELIASSON: A LETTER TO THE ECONOMIST (October 12, 2007)

Judging from your article about Olafur Eliasson, who has built a pavilion for London’s Serpentine Gallery that looks like a spinning top (“Spinning Tops and Frozen Cars,” October 6, 2007), he is a great talker. Here are a few gems: “My art is about you”; “I make art that creates an experience, not a representation”; “When I was a student, people became artists to step away from the world, now it is a way to engage with it”; “I live in this world, not a parallel universe, and I have to engage with it”; “I am not a nature lover, I am a people lover.” Wonderful, this. Only consider the places where he finds his people, besides London: San Francisco, Tokyo, Dallas, Sydney… Some people lover, he.