“I don’t have two lives,” Leibovitz says. “This is one life, and the personal pictures and the assignment work are all part of it.”
Annie Leibovitz’s words have hovered in my mind the last ten days. My equivalent was art=life, life=art. Yet I was skirting the corners as it came to asserting the artist in [...]
Poster merket med ‘art’
november 27, 2008
Please, merge
november 25, 2008
Things needn’t be black or white
Louise Bourgeios: From Statements 1988:
The repetetive motion of a line,
to caress an object,
the licking of wounds,
the back and forth of a shuttle,
the endless repetition of waves,
rocking a person to sleep,
cleaning someone you like,
the endless gesture of love
november 18, 2008
a Playful kick in the butt – seriously!
In 1998 Canadian designer Bruce Mau wrote an Incomplete Manifesto. It starts out like this:
Allow events to change you. – You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth: the openness to experience events and the willingness to [...]
oktober 26, 2008
Go Rothko
A gentle yet intense vibration takes place in the air between Mark Rothko’s (1903-1970) large scale canvases and myself. I inhale deeply, give into the magic while my optic nerve is having a feast. Thanks again Tate Modern, London. You guys give me a reason to dig deep in my pockets to ’splurge’ on the cheapest [...]
