Here is a photo of the imprint left by a bird flying into a window. Its from a flickr group called Bird Imprints on Glass which features 122 photos.
I think its really interesting the way various flickr users around the world make observations of simple phenomena like this independently and that they are then compiled through the site. This group and the previously posted chewing gum trees group remind me of some of the work I did as a student. I’m glad I don’t work like that now because I don’t think i could compete with the combined resources of the Flickr community.
Today I saw this photo taken in Mexico City by the artist Gabriel Kuri which shows a tree by a bus stop which is completely covered with chewing gum. I also recalled having read about a photograph by David Byrne of a tree covered in gum in Mexico City (possibly the same one).
I googled “chewing gum tree” and found this flickr group of 92 photos of various trees covered with chewing gum (including the one photographed by Kuri and possibly Byrne).
Arts managment Ireland has a post about the Antony Gormley sculpture which is planned for the Dublin Docklands:
On the 16th of January the Irish Times ran a story announcing the approval of planning permission for the work by Dublin City Council, only to be followed the next day with news of the project being scrapped due to budget reasons.
Yesterday’s Sunday Times has refuted the refutation, quoting the sculptor and DDDA arts manager Mary McCarthy as stating the project is still ‘full steam ahead’.
http://artsmanagement.ie/2009/01/26/as-clear-as-the-waters-of-the-liffey/
Furniture made from scrap wood by designer Piet Hein featured on Boingboing and makezine recently. Here’s a couple of his pieces. Here’s a link to his website.
My work in the exhibition New Traditions at the Stone Gallery got a brief but favourable mention in the Metro the other day:
Today I checked the internet for coverage of recent exhibitions and found a post by a blogger named Tiffany about the exhibition Bookish: When Books Become Art.
Here is an excerpt:
“A curious artist plucks love notes and illegible post-it’s from the pages of borrowed material. Tags from brand new shirts, receipts, and ticket stubs litter the library, but are hidden within the two covers of so many books. Sit down in your area library and flip through the pages, see what sort of archeological discoveries are dug up. What can one book carry to the next reader? A book is a vessel of knowledge and ideas. It carries germs and footnotes, garbage and timeless treasures. ”
The full post can be found here: http://t-strutz.blogspot.com/2008/09/bookish.html
I’ll be exhibiting the wall mounted piece pictured here and a freestanding sculpture in a group show called New Traditions at the Stone Gallery (15 Jan – 14 Feb).
Here is a link to a flickr pool showing patterns from the inside of envelopes designed to make it impossible to read the contents throught the envelope.
Here is a link to a website called factualTV where you can view various documentaries for free. In the art section there are videos on Tony Cragg, Anish Kapoor, Martin Creed, Michael Landy, Mona Hatoum, Mark Wallinger, Rachel Whiteread, Helen Chadwich, Richard Deacon, Vong Phaophanit, and others.
