Why You Like Minimalism

Minimalism is not the absence of feeling. It is a decision about where to put it.

The artists who work in this register — Agnes Martin's grids, Donald Judd's boxes, the ceramicists who leave a single line running around a bowl — trust the viewer to bring the rest. What they give you is a set of conditions: a proportion, a color, a horizon. The work happens between you and the object.

If you keep returning to these pieces, you are probably not looking for less. You are looking for room.