Stacey Lee Gee: I’LL WORSHIP ANYTHING

Put anything in front of me and I’ll worship it. Worship zooms me into a thing and zooms me out to the absence of myself.

One part deep history, one part plexiglass from Home Depot. The collaboration of old and the new, the history of myself and the space. The arrangement of objects in a particular room at a particular time.

The care that goes into worshiping something is the kind of humanity I wish for.

Sometimes I go into a museum and everything is dead. It takes a significant amount of work as the person viewing artwork to put myself inside it.

When I make something, I feel the reverence of walking into a museum, taking art off the wall, adding to it, and hanging it back up.

We can worship anything. 

When worshipping, we don’t even need to know what it is we are worshiping. To enter into worship, we place ourselves in the spot of our psyches where we want to receive and give.

By perpetually inventing ourselves, we are inventing the world. There’s nothing more appealing than that. This is what freedom is. The existentialists say: ‘You are free. In other words, invent.’ Moral choice is constructing a piece of art. Choosing ourselves in the presence of others is the opposite of superstition. 

Choice is the worship of everything.

Gallery hours: Thurs – Fri 2-6pm, Sat – Sun 12-4 pm

This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.