«This Ferrari belongs here,» I thought to myself, its beauteous, modern, radiant form a passing star against the timeworn
landscape, its searing engine note tuned to soar
over the vineyards and sing with the church bells, its very
presence an embodiment of all the passion and history and art that is Italy.
Some subjects that Joan Jonas has touched on
over her fifty year career (in no particular order): nature, her dog, animism, Japanese Noh theatre, the moon and the sun, insects, masks (metaphorical and literal), ghosts,
landscape, Hopi mythology, the female body, the female artist, the nature of
presence versus representation, memory, her home in Cape Breton.