Dan Flavin (1933–96) was notoriously prickly about any attempts to interpret his fluorescent light installations. ‘There is no invitation to meditate, to contemplate,’ he once said. ‘Electric light is just another instrument. I have no desire to contrive fantasies mediumistically or sociologically over it or beyond it.’ Or, as he famously put it: ‘It is what it is and it ain’t nothing else.
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