Friday, 22 May 2009
Saturday, 16 May 2009
Exhibition opening night
So there are some things I like and some things I dislike about the work. I do like the plinth being a little too big because it makes the work appear even smaller. I like the fact that I haven't added more because I don't want it to look like a cosmetic counter in any way (unlike Janine Antoni Lipslick).
I don't like the label, I wanted it bigger and longer but had an accident with a guillotine. Also I should have labelled it "Sugar, Lard and Plastic Lid" possibly? I have not referred to the lid in the title and it maybe looks like an afterthought although it wasn't.
Overall, I quite like it. People have touched it (I'm so anal I can tell). I don't really mind that my beautiful wee peak of lard has changed, I quite like the fact that it drew someone in enough to touch.
Tuesday, 12 May 2009
My lovely plinth
It has taken 2 whole days to track down my lovely plinth. It isn't perfect, but it is lovely.
Monday, 11 May 2009
Immanuel Kant
I was quite enjoying reading 'Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and the Sublime' until I read this....
"The fair sex has just as much understanding as the male, but it is a beautiful understanding, whereas ours should be a deep understanding, an expression that signifies identity with the sublime......Deep meditation and a long-sustained reflection are noble but difficult, and do not well befit a person in whom unconstrained charms should show nothing else than a beautiful nature. Laborious learning or painful pondering, even if a woman should greatly succeed in it, destroy the merits that are proper to her sex, and because of their rarity they can make of her an object of cold admiration; but at the same time they will weaken the charms with which she exercises her power over the other sex. A woman who has a head full of Greek, like Mme Dacier.......might as well even have a beard...." (p78)
These words were uttered about 300 years ago by "a little man, stooped and stunted by a deformity from birth. He is a bachelor and is not known ever to have had a love affair. He shuns any intimacy with women".
It's still kinda put me off the book.
"The fair sex has just as much understanding as the male, but it is a beautiful understanding, whereas ours should be a deep understanding, an expression that signifies identity with the sublime......Deep meditation and a long-sustained reflection are noble but difficult, and do not well befit a person in whom unconstrained charms should show nothing else than a beautiful nature. Laborious learning or painful pondering, even if a woman should greatly succeed in it, destroy the merits that are proper to her sex, and because of their rarity they can make of her an object of cold admiration; but at the same time they will weaken the charms with which she exercises her power over the other sex. A woman who has a head full of Greek, like Mme Dacier.......might as well even have a beard...." (p78)
These words were uttered about 300 years ago by "a little man, stooped and stunted by a deformity from birth. He is a bachelor and is not known ever to have had a love affair. He shuns any intimacy with women".
It's still kinda put me off the book.
Saturday, 9 May 2009
Some light relief
YouTube - IVOR CUTLER "Looking for truth with a pin"
I haven't heard this for a very long time, and it still makes me smile.
Cory Arcangel
YouTube - TateShots NYC: Cory Arcangel
This guy does things with old game boys and computer games. He also helpfully posts intructions on how to cobble the stuff together....not that it helps me much. I do like it though and wish I could.
Kitchen disaster
Note to self - Don't use water to dissolve the sugar...It doesn't work
Dark brown soft sugar mixed with white. I made a toffee pebble.
Monday, 4 May 2009
Hole
Anish Kapoor Hole, 1988; sculpture; fiberglass and pigment, 84 in. x 84 in. x 102 in. (213.36 cm x 213.36 cm x 259.08 cm); Collection SFMOMA, Gift of Mrs. Milo Gates; © Anish Kapoor
Friday, 1 May 2009
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