Molly Valentine Dierks: To Love One Another (Day Labor)

July 19 - July 19,2025

From the artist: "To Love One Another’ (Day Labor) is a semipermanent public work of art, installed in the Sheila and Houston Hill Courtyard Gallery in the Museum District of Fort Worth. Fashioned in rebar, the work’s materiality references invisible infrastructures that symbiotically support a healthy and vibrant society. The color palette is inspired by the sunset in a land where the eye can stretch to the horizon, and the vibrancy of the LGBTQIA+ movement in Texas, a frequent target for political suppression. Curved and mutable, ‘To Love One Another’ provides an antidote to the ‘lone hero’ narrative typical of Fort Worth monuments, instead focusing on the ambiguous, evolving nature of real progress and healing. The piece is titled after the writing of Rainer Marie Rilke to a colleague where he muses “There is scarcely anything more difficult than to love one another. That it is work, day labor...Day Labor, God knows there is no other word for it”. ____ This work was supported with funding from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (New York, NY), Arts Fort Worth/Fort Worth Public Art, a Center for Humanities & the Arts Small Grant, & a Eugene M. Kayden Award from the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Photo Credit: Shawn Saumell | Fabrication Credit: Innovation Forge, Berthoud, CO."

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