Saturday, February 23, 2013

CRANE-ing my Neck

A mid-January trip to the Crane brought about some of these thoughts.
Not to mention how interesting it was to open the door after a long, howling windy walk and step into this quiet, dark, fire-lit building.


Winterdown



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Crossing, passages, liminal state
The sound of the boards creaking and feeling of steps swaying the bridge
Finding yourself in a tight enclosure in the middle of the roaring white silence
Periodically some of the "objects" turn on and cycle through something mechanical
I wonder if this is how a cell feels

Istoria by Jay Walker

A hallway of magic.
Silver emerging from heads, like Cavemanman by Hirschhorn
Radiating ot
Veins trailing (ARTeries?) = trees?
Hearts connecting
Head prints
And across from all the motion and chaos and connections and patterns and stimuli--a single, lone, hooded figure on the other side of the hall.\







Indigo Arts Gallery

I spent a while looking at the prints here.











Ideas:
Trees/leaves in the wind
Palms/palmettos--time to revisit FL and Costa Rica
Mermaid as two-ended sankofa, with other life forms in tail
Abalones
Hill shapes/scales
Flat-line landscape silhouettes
Crowds of people behind wings
Sunburst with family and gnarled trees
People dancing with serpents intertwined (Darling Scarp and Krishna)
Small figures holding up woman (sleeping/dreaming?) "The city, she's not ready"
Tree leaves/canopy / sky+ocean

Ideas for some CR images:
bright, graphic
party crowds yet some overtones of solitude
foreboding sky
birds, animals
red/pink leaves, blue stems
dances, serpents
peacock feathers/clouds/palms
over a triange--Jung's archetypal shapes
lace
standing on a balcony over the chaos
or a lone person (or a brain) below it
the gathering cloud
stairs
empty spaces + vacant places
decay --> regeneration...beautiful decay!
dust clouds, smoke swirls, whorls
strong shadows--blue+purple+red, lime green
shadows more substantial than object
SLANT
disjointed lines
logic

Stuart Elster


This last one wasn't part of this exhibit, but it seems like it belongs here too.


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