Jack Anderson, The New York Times:

“Ms. Mussmann constructs her works out of free associations. Sometimes, a space provides her with ideas. Inspecting the space while preparing “Little Stumps - The Deal," she found herself admiring its enormous windows. "They're magnificent.” she said. "I adore windows." Their framework began to remind her of other things: for instance, tabletops. She then designed a table with a top similar in shape to a window.”

Jack Anderson, The New York Times:

"A stump can be many things. Most obviously, it's what remains in the ground after the rest of a tree has been cut. As a noun, stump can also mean a rostrum or a tramping step. As a verb, it can mean to perplex, baffle and challenge.

How many of those definitions are relevant to Linda Mussmann's “Little Stumps: The Deal"? Very possibly, all of them may be referred to in the new mixed-media work for a cast of six that Ms. Mussmann's company, Time and Space Limited, is presenting at the Merce Cunningham Studio this weekend.

Ms. Mussmann delights in ambiguity. In her productions, ideas take form, only to explode and recrystallize. Her works do stump: they perplex. And they fit no convenient artistic category, for they combine texts by Ms. Mussmann with acting, chanting and rhythmic movement.”

Linda Mussmann:

“They're the opposite of storytelling. I don't like to connect things. I avoid using theatrical 'ands.' Instead of emphasizing that here we are, you and me and a chair, I just point out you, me, chair.

Although I have feelings about every work I do, I don't try to impose them on the audience. I hope my images will evoke them instead. Yet my choice of imagery is not arbitrary; and that, I think, is what keeps my works from being merely irrational.

If my works are puzzling," she said, "I hope that they are puzzles that provide pleasure, rather than frustration. People puzzle over things all the time. Art allows that to happen.”