Deck, 2007
Stepped Structure, 2009
More at http://www.tedlarsen.com
06/02/2012
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27/12/2011
18/12/2011
Merry Christmas
Sol LeWitt, Three Stacked Domes, 2005, solid slabs of syntactic polyurethane and painted in lacquer, EDITION/SET OF: 6
(Looks a bit like a snowman)
12/12/2011
11/12/2011
20/11/2011
Woven Silver Cone from 10th Century Dublin
There are three separate strands of silver, each composed of between 15 and 18 wires. Yet, Halpin says, it is very hard to find where all these wires end. The visual effect is that of a single thread turning endlessly around itself. There are traces of some kind of organic material inside the cone, probably a wax shape around which the wires were woven. The visual imagination and the physical deftness required to do so are of the highest order.
This artefact is housed in the National Museum of Ireland and the text and image above come from the Irish Times’ History of Ireland in 100 objects
16/11/2011
Will Eisner and Francis Alys
I have, here, undertaken a series of vignettes built around nine elements which, taken together, are my portrayal of a big city…any city.
Seen from afar, major cities are an accumulation of big buildings, big population and big acreage. For me it is not ‘real.’ The big city as it is seen by its inhabitants is the real thing. The true picture is in the crevices on its floors and around the smaller pieces of its architecture where daily life swirls.
Will Eisner, from the introduction to New York: The Big City
Eisner’s Comic New York: Life in the Big City (of which New York: The Big City is sub-section) contains many short episodic comics, often with little if any dialogue, depicting people engaged in small interactions with architectural elements of the city; fire hydrants, lamp posts, bins etc. It reminded me of Francis Alys’ work using similar elements in urban public space. Below is a page from Eisner’s comic and a video by Alys.
15/11/2011
No Manifesto – Yvonne Rainer
NO to spectacle.
No to virtuosity.
No to transformations and magic and make-believe.
No to the glamour and transcendency of the star image.
No to the heroic.
No to the anti-heroic.
No to trash imagery.
No to involvement of performer or spectator.
No to style.
No to camp.
No to seduction of spectator by the wiles of the performer.
No to eccentricity.
No to moving or being moved.
Yvonne Rainer, No Manifest, 1965