Terry Richardson for Tom Ford
Monthly Archive for November, 2010
My mind is open wide
And now I’m ready to start
To step out into the dark
Now I’m ready
sentimental authenticity
Jon Pylypchuk’s sculptures are evocative of soft toys that have come to grief, but are creations put together out of an array of scrap material. These pathetic animals reflect the hopelessness of the human condition and the emotions we would prefer to avoid. Emotional frailty is worn as physical weakness, as a bird and a sort of cat sit together wondering how one leg each will serve them. Some other creatures are caught in a situation only made worse by the presence of too many snakes, while a couple of sock-wearing misfits stand around without even a title. –> Interview with the artist
Riding electromagnetic currents into the void
“In 1980, Lebbeus Woods proposed a tomb for Albert Einstein – the so-called Einstein Tomb – inspired by Boullée’s famous Cenotaph for Newton.
But Woods’s proposal wasn’t some paltry gravestone or intricate mausoleum in hewn granite: it was an asymmetrical space station traveling on the gravitational warp and weft of infinite emptiness, passing through clouds of mutational radiation, riding electromagnetic currents into the void.” (Geoff Manaugh)
always simple style
Gaston Chaissac, is completely self-taught, having never followed any artistic training. He was born 1910 in Avalon France. He practiced all sorts of humble jobs (kitchen boy, assistant in a hardware store, apprentice saddle, and cobbler) and says about himself: “My rustic, modern painting is quite poor; in 20 years I hope it will become rich. (1946)”
The first time I saw it underground
Six deep feet below the street
It lit up all the fish like rain
And rained them down on me
The sky came crashing down
For a second that place was lost in space.
Artist Shuichi Nakano‘s “Searching for Paradise” paintings depict oversized animals towering over the urban sprawl.