From Firework Studies, 2009
Pierre Le Hors
-“Firework studies is a book compiling photographs of fireworks in the night sky. By constraining nearly all tonal values to stark blacks and pure whites, the trails, explosions and clouds of debris are reduced to a series of simple repeated formal elements: arced lines, spherical bursts, and randomly dispersed particles. I made no effort to limit digital artifacts resulting from pushing the image files past their conventional range; the resulting noise becomes hard to distinguish from the texture of the fireworks themselves.”
-Le Hors
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Pope Saint Victor. The Sparrow Letter.
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“I want to have experiences. I’m so tired of preparing for life: I want to live it now.”
amen & amen & amen again.
(via dreaminginthedeepsouth)
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crashinglybeautiful: Marke Johnson: Endless Journey Home. Thank you, darksilenceinsuburbia & theredshoes.
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John Giorno, 2011
in the fade: there's no such thing as an inanimate object
give life to everything.I restock forms at work by putting the newer forms under the old ones because I would feel bad if the older ones never got used.
There is a box of cookies in my pantry that no one is going to eat and I have given that box of cookies emotions and now it says things like “please don’t throw me away without anyone even having tasted me.”
A coffee cup wonders why I always pick the others in the cabinet over it.
My phone is sad that I left it in the car because it’s really cold outside.
My neighbor’s car is pretty angry that my neighbor never cleared the snow off of it.
That building has been depressed since they put boards over its windows. It can’t even see the passing traffic on the street now.
The pillow says “How come I always end up on the floor at night and the other pillow gets to stay in the bed?”
My laptop thinks I’m a moron.
Todd’s hats hang in our office. “Why are you looking at us like that? We are just hats. We don’t have feelings. OR DO WE?”
Don’t even get me started on stuffed animals.
I do this too, this anthropomorphizing of things & daily errata. I think it makes for a bottomless well of projected emotional responsibility.
Source: inthefade
Crashingly Beautiful: Welcome
if you believe nothing is always what’s left
after a while, as I did,
If you believe you have this collection
of ungiven gifts, as I do (right here
behind the silence and the averted eyes)
If you believe an afternoon can collapse
into strange privacies -
how in your backyard, for example,
the shyness of flowers can be suddenly
overwhelming, and in the distance
the clear goddamn of thunder
personal, like a voice,
If you believe there’s no correct response
to death, as I do; that even in grief
(where I’ve sat making plans)
there are small corners of joy
If your body sometimes is a light switch
in a house of insomniacs
If you can feel yourself straining
to be yourself every waking minute
If, as I am, you are almost smiling…
-Stephen DunnThank you, Whiskey River
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.../miscellaneous: Sentences on Conceptual Art - Sol LeWitt
Sentences on Conceptual Art, by Sol LeWitt in verbatim: (numbers 1-9 of 35)
Sentences on Conceptual Art, by Sol LeWitt in verbatim: (numbers 1-9 of 35)
1. Conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic can not reach.
2. Rational judgements repeat rational judgments.
3. Irrational judgments lead to new experience.
4. Formal art is essentially rational.
5. Irrational thoughts should be followed absolutely and logically.
6. If the artist changes his mind midway through the execution of the piece he compromises the result and repeats past results.
7. The artist’s will is secondary to the process he initiates from idea to completion. His willfulness may only be ego.
8. When words such as painting and sculpture are used, they connote a whole tradition and imply a consequent acceptance of this tradition, thus placing limitations on the artist who would be reluctant to make art that goes beyond the limitations.
9. The concept and idea are different. The former implies a general direction while the latter is the component. Ideas implement the concept.
to be continued…
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