Michael Stipe On Coupland’s 9/11 Paintings
The former REM frontman Michael Stipe looks at Douglas Coupland’s 9/11-inspired artwork: ‘With a small, powerful set of images, [Coupland] actually manages to playfully (how did he pull that off?) remind us of our collective 9/11 moment – the act that unzippered the 21st century in most of the world, and changed my notion of home and safety forever. Coupland’s at first seemingly Op Art paintings are just black dots – abstract, weirdly familiar. But then you look at them on your iPhone (because you’re going to take a pic and post it … this is 2014, after all) and you have the ahhhhhhh moment when a chill runs down your spine and you realize that it’s them: the jumpers.’
