Truisms were very influential on my peergroup in the 90s, as we learned about the series in art class. Later on, I acquired a set of some of the pieces and forg

Truisms were very influential on my peergroup in the 90s, as we learned about the series in art class. Later on, I acquired a set of some of the pieces and forget about them until articles like this come up! Not all of them are true, and some are just slogans that use the other truisms as a vehicle, but they are always fun to discover in seemingly random places. The effect of discovering one of her proverbs that is pithy, specific, mostly true or at least belief affirming, and then at a time that seems random makes them seem like supernatural interventions. They asked, if that was the effect of art designed to provoke you, what was the effect of advertising, and can you choose your beliefs? ("Change your beliefs." was another Holzer meme.) It would be interesting to interview artists who seem to have had foresight like that, and ask how they see it in the present, and whether they have similar insights about the future.