For Sol LeWitt
Mapping New Territories - writing

Letter from Candida to Sol LeWitt:

November 8, 2007

Dear Sol:

It has been three years since we have been in touch and so much has happened since the last time you and Carol came to visit me in my studio in New Haven. I saved all the small postcard drawings you mailed us celebrating every New Year from 2000-2004. I am glad to hear you enjoyed the piece I sent you. What an honor to hear that you hung it up in your music room and library which you frequent every afternoon.

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Spirit Catcher

by Terry R. Myers

Candida Alvarez defines the work that she produced for this exhibition as an intervention rather than an installation: “I was not installing anything. I was creating and thinking through to a response.”(1) Her response was largely directed at the particular situation of the exhibition space that she turned into a temporary satellite studio where, often in the middle of the night, she conceptualized and ultimately produced the work with the assistance of a team of art students that came together during what was a constantly evolving process.

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