Posts tagged art

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Can’t stop loving Wes Sumners photo’s.

Not too long ago I was in the National Gallery in Washington where I happened apon the Rothko gallery where Morton Feldmans Rothko Chapel was plaingbinnthe background. The piece was inspired by and played in the Rothko chapel. It’s deep, moody and haunting and absolutely evokes the work. We’ve been playing it all week-end on this broad and moody farm in the Catskills and I’m now quite certain I won’t think of upstate without being haunted by this piece.

Spring time/Japanese print atop minnewaska ridge trail.

Spring time/Japanese print atop minnewaska ridge trail.

Heading up-state.

Heading up-state.

Silent world. The world without people. http://www.lucieandsimon.com/works/silent_world#/12/Silent%20world/Columbus%20circle,%20C-print,%20250x320cm,%202009

Silent world. The world without people.

http://www.lucieandsimon.com/works/silent_world#/12/Silent%20world/Columbus%20circle,%20C-print,%20250x320cm,%202009

Projected gallery at the Steins Collect show at the Metropolitan. I don’t think I realized just how robust collectors the entire family was until I saw the show.

Projected gallery at the Steins Collect show at the Metropolitan. I don’t think I realized just how robust collectors the entire family was until I saw the show.

My new notebook.

My new notebook.

I’m obsessed with macramé wall hangings just can’t understand if I could make them work in my life. Maybe in a beach house?

I’m obsessed with macramé wall hangings just can’t understand if I could make them work in my life. Maybe in a beach house?

During the talk on Post Secret and sharing secrets at TED this postcard froze the entire room. http://www.postsecret.com/

During the talk on Post Secret and sharing secrets at TED this postcard froze the entire room.

http://www.postsecret.com/

Slightly Unidentified Wrapped Objects

I worked for an artist for a while who had been the producer for Christo’s curtain piece on the California coast. Going through those files I came across endless photo’s or photo collages of wrapped objects from buildings to chairs. The act of wrapping or coming across something wrapped in our day to day life is such an interesting example of taking something that is known, that we can clearly identify and giving it a little bit of mystery. We still for the most part are likely to be able to identify the object but its suddenly become other. From gifts, to art to people wrapping allows us to take the familiar personal and understandable and make it universal and other.