As a curator I seek to ground artists in their publics and the social contexts in which the work takes place. Rather than becoming overly intellectual, therefore, the work used usually connects on multiple levels with viewers, and tries to pull them in rather than push them away. After all, even if volumes can be written about the work, it all comes down to the thirty seconds an artist has to speak to his or her audience. If the volumes cannot be condensed into that thirty seconds, and if those thirty seconds don’t touch someone, the piece has usually failed. What makes us human is an effort towards communication, and without it art pales into nothing more than an imitation of a memory.