I have been thinking of Finland quite a bit lately. This is an image of a piece I did there in 2005, the milk bath in Aarne's massive tub sculpture. It was very cold and the photograph does not include Jetti the reindeer who was also part of the piece (he is in other images). I must admit to loving the monochrome of winter, visually. Those of you who know me know how I love white and neutrals. Perhaps I am percolating on a new piece, taking in some previous places and projects and re-evaluating them. Something is afoot...I feel that Pippilotti Rist really poked me at MoMA last weekend in New York in a similar way that Janine Antoni really poked me at IMMA in Dublin in 1995...
Friday, January 30, 2009
I have been thinking of Finland quite a bit lately. This is an image of a piece I did there in 2005, the milk bath in Aarne's massive tub sculpture. It was very cold and the photograph does not include Jetti the reindeer who was also part of the piece (he is in other images). I must admit to loving the monochrome of winter, visually. Those of you who know me know how I love white and neutrals. Perhaps I am percolating on a new piece, taking in some previous places and projects and re-evaluating them. Something is afoot...I feel that Pippilotti Rist really poked me at MoMA last weekend in New York in a similar way that Janine Antoni really poked me at IMMA in Dublin in 1995...
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I want to see the picture with the reindeer! This one is very interesting in it's transcendence. Even before I think of that I'm drawn into it by the contrast and composition.
ReplyDeleteI am happy for the reminder of Pippilotti Rist. Now I want to look into Janine Antoni.
I was so lucky to be an observer of her piece at IMMA called "Loving Care" in which she mopped the gallery floor with her hair using black hair dye. It was a truly incredible piece that changed my life completely.
ReplyDeleteI am stirring with the thought of what you described.
ReplyDeleteOn another but related note I remember walking into Unland, Doris Salcedo's table sculptures (using human hair) and being overcome with emotion.
I have saved my own hair from about the time I was 9.
Have you ever seen the snares, nets, and rope that Native Americans
made with their hair?
This is somewhat off track from the deep symbolism of "Loving Care" yet hair is at the heart of a textured, human existence.
I was thinking about what you said in another entry that you like to make things that disappear because you will disappear.
Janine Antoni has done that also and in the process left a rich fertile layer to germinate new ideas, hope, and discovery.
That is the idea with the wood in the forest that I have been gathering into mounds. It has the potential to be very useful to grow
food. And it is also the thing that it is now.
yes, I totally agree about the wood mounds in the forest they are simultaneously now and later, much much later. In this way they are uniquely 4 dimensional, I believe. I thought this when I first saw them.
ReplyDeleteThe victorian hair pieces also come to mind and I recall a story I heard of a woman who went to a yard sale and opened a modest sized box there to find two red braids from a human being. She was quite shocked and I do not think she bought them. See, I would have! And created an entire body of work based on them and the story of it!
What are you going to do will all your hair? When will there be "enough" gathered, I wonder?
It's kind of a color range thing. In my mind I see them all lined up; from towhead color to gray/white. So I would say it's a near the end project!
ReplyDeleteI did use some once. On white paper(22x30) there is my hair on the top portion and a picture of a Native American below.
Going back to the wood mounds in the forest...one of the remarkable things about living in today's society is how short, brief and truncated the contexts and reference points are, generally, around us- like living in a closet almost the exact same size as your body (there is a sculptor who made work directly referencing this and I loved it although i cannot recall her last name at the moment). The forest wood mounds radically break this "spell" and suggest geologic time while providing a bridge to a highly present moment. When I saw them, ancient architecture was invoked which is really the only site left of this expansion/lengthening, physically.
ReplyDeleteThank you for making this work AMP.
off to New Mexico-sending you my thoughts via USPS
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