A facing angle would better illustrate the perfect position of the kicked-away shoe, hanging in mid-air like a butterfly.
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Friday, September 18, 2009
The Swing (After Fragonard) by Yinka Shonibare
A facing angle would better illustrate the perfect position of the kicked-away shoe, hanging in mid-air like a butterfly.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Vince Contarino
from butdoesitfloat.com: Vince Contarino is a Brooklyn-based artist who explores the possibilities of abstraction through drawing, painting and collage. He's interested in developing a visual language through ambiguous gestures and informed decision-making.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Rilke
I welcome--the mouths that burst open after
long knowledge of what it is to be mute.
Do we know this, my friends, or don't we know this?
Both are formed by the hesitant hour
in the deep calm of the human face.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Rosmarie Waldrop
Much work still to be done. And the smell of ripe peaches. And Long-Jing tea. And lungs full of words. And being an opaque body that intercepts the rays of the sun.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Orlando
Orlando is at its heart a story of loss—the loss of time as it passes—a meditation on the impermanence of love, power, and politics. I simply carried that logic through to include Orlando’s loss of property and status in the 20th century. Whilst the loss of property in the story is a symptom of the second class status of women, there is also an aspect which is worthy of celebration: the loss of privilege and status based on an outdated English class system.
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Finally, the ending of the film needed to be brought into the present in order to remain true to Virginia Woolf’s use of real-time at the end of the novel (where the story finishes just as she puts down her pen to finish the book). Coming up to the present day meant acknowledging some key events of the 20th century--the two world wars, the electronic revolution—the contraction of space through time reinvented by speed. But the film ends somewhere between heaven and earth in a place of ecstatic communion with the present moment.
Continuous Monument by Superstudio
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text via City of Sound and MOMA
Church of Solitude
Gaetano Pesce’s Church of Solitude was conceived in reaction to his experience of New York in the 1970s, where he saw people living together, “helter-skelter in crowds.” To provide a serene place for introspection and contemplation, he buried the church beneath a vacant lot amid the towers of the city. The silent sanctuary incorporated small individual cells, a further retreat from the city’s corporate and institutional culture. An excavated landscape was, for Pesce, an overlooked space that could provide for people’s future needs
via MOMA