Artists
One Horse Boat
We went out on Christopher Robbin’s boat for a few hours today! Here are some pictures from the Providence River.
screaming into glass
Some stills from a video of me screaming into molten glass. I did this at the request of Jocelyn Prince, of the RISD glass department. After the glass cools, you can see the sound waves inside it. I’m glad I could put those hardcore band skills to good use! It was really fun, although, all of the screaming led to someone calling the police.
Erwin Redl
I love this piece. I saw it earlier this year, in the Ecstasy show at the LA Moca. I was reading through some old articles and found this picture. 
cold
I have been sick with a cold for the past few days. I am at home in bed, although I’m not really resting, I am working on my 100 source compendium of references for my Seminar class with Bill.
While reading, I was reminded of a beautiful piece by Mona Hatoum that I saw at the Venice Bienale last year.
It is a larger version of a piece she made as a student.
“A third strand of Hatoum’s student work consisted of ‘conceptual’, minimalist objects embodying philosophical and perceptual paradoxes. One was a kinetic object she called Self-Erasing Drawing (1979). A motor-driven arm, rotating at five rpm on a central pivot, draws circular lines in a bed of sand with one end while the other end of the arm immediately erases them. A reductio ad absurdum of a closed system, a paradigm of the inseparable but ambiguous relationship of opposites, an ironic automation of the artist’s volitional act of marking and rubbing out, ‘a sense of existence accentuated by the fear of disappearance’: however one sees it, the little object turned out to have a prophetic relation to the structure of many of Hatoum’s later works.â€
Hatoum, Mona, Michael Archer, Guy Brett, and Catherine de Zegher. Mona Hatoum. London: Phaidon Press Ltd, 1997.
