TS Curatory Theory

You, the Curator

You do not need a gallery or a degree.

Your surroundings — everthing you have chosen — already reveal how you see.

What is called style or taste may actually be your most concentrated knowledge. It protects you — as a fortress of what feels familiar….standing firm while facing a universe of what you do not yet understand.

A Mid-Century Fetish

Brown Paper Packages Tied Up With Strings

Two Sycamores remembers the late 1960’s and being gently taught to define ourselves by our favorite things. A decent human lifetime later, we can’t help noticing how that favoritism has narrowed into some unabashedly intimate brands, collections and fetishes.

Could this perhaps be what made us so easy to sort — even easier to sell to and satisfy?

Curation is not about preference.

It asks not what do you like? but what do you notice?

Being Born…Does That Define You?

You can’t deny the era you were born into.

Even so, you are still only a flicker of a moment on a microscopic lens that hasn’t itself been disovered.

So the question becomes:

How does a human behave — knowing they are nearly invisible…yet still responsible?

Seeking

Why was it created?
Who chose these colors?
Whose hands shaped it — and for whom?
What did it mean once… and what might it mean now?

Fine art is not only mastery.
It is evidence of intention — risk, skill, wit, memory, courage.

Intentions

Every object holds decisions.
Every decision holds a voice.
Any voice can be heard by anyone willing to look closely.

Your Curatorial Skills

• A mantel arranged with care

• A chosen fabric

• A room that feels right

• A beveled window in an abandoned house

An Invitation

Two Sycamores invites you to practic this way of seeing: to compare, preserve, wonder, reconsider — to allow objects to teach and to discover those which still have a voice.