Chasing my Noon shadow, low sun.
Marshal Carl Gustaf Mannerheim. For many Finns, this statue is a sacred symbol. Mannerheim was also the first President of Finland.
The IKEA Bus, the IKEA Bus. Reminds me of the Spadina Bus by the Shuffle Demons.
Fonts
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Creative construction site 01
Creative construction site 02 – The Parliament House
Railway Square, Zamboni in History
Black and White
Two days ago we visited two ginormous earthwork projects. I love seeing art in unassuming places without the hype and glory of the museum/gallery setting. Somehow, this lets me respond to things in a more personal and direct way.
In both of these, it was thrilling to see how we (the group of residents) responded with childlike glee and playfulness to the pieces.
A difficult piece to photograph because of its scale. So I am adding a satellite view from Google earth for some perspective; click on it to see a larger view (its worth the trouble).
Puuvuori – Tree Mountain by Agnes Danes – Google View
Puuvuori – Tree Mountain by Agnes Danes – Pierre view
Puuvuori – Tree Mountain by Agnes Danes – Pierre view
Puuvuori – Tree Mountain by Agnes Danes – Pierre view
Puuvuori – Tree Mountain by Agnes Danes – Pierre view
What is most striking to me, as with many Earthworks, is that both these projects are about reclamation. The idea of the land reclaiming sites used for commercial or industrial purposes, over time, much much time. These works are interventions that bring the human scale into this process, not destructively but in some kind of balance with natural processes. Ultimately, the work is about optimism and a firm belief that the marks that humans leave on this planet will change, the Earth will persist despite human ignorance.
A piece that was absolute joy to photograph, the possibilities were endless. We played and we played; an excellent field trip.
Yltä ja Alta/Up and Under by Nancy Holt – Google Earth view
Yltä ja Alta/Up and Under by Nancy Holt – Pierre view
Yltä ja Alta/Up and Under by Nancy Holt – Pierre view
Yltä ja Alta/Up and Under by Nancy Holt – Pierre view
Yltä ja Alta/Up and Under by Nancy Holt – Pierre view
Yltä ja Alta/Up and Under by Nancy Holt – Pierre view
Yltä ja Alta/Up and Under by Nancy Holt – Pierre view
Yltä ja Alta/Up and Under by Nancy Holt – Pierre view
Yltä ja Alta/Up and Under by Nancy Holt – Pierre view
I will let the work do all the talking today, it is worth listening to it.
Aurora Wondrous Haukijärvi 1
It was not the most spectacular or long lasting, but all events have significance; they bring with them their own special dynamic and provoke response. We get to be fascinated children gleefully dancing to the music of chance.
Moving blob of glow
Being part of a herd of artists scurrying around, finding the best angle and exposure, excitedly chatting and wondering (and in the act of witnessing wonder). The event created an event.
Aurora Wondrous Haukijärvi presen[t]ce
Aurora Wondrous Haukijärvi 2
Fingers cold enough that one could not find those buttons that have become so familiar, fumbling with apertures and shutters.
Can’t see the tree for the forest.
How can we be sure something happened if no one saw us there?
Orion came to the show, witnessing the witnesses.
In “Vertical Features Remake”, Peter Greenaway uses the simple device of counting frames on film to create a mythology around the elemental idea of a thing sticking out from the horizon. I was surprised when looking at my captures from this day to notice that all I seemed to be interested in was exactly that. This is my process, let chance (thanks Aiden) and coincidence fester and bleed into daily experience.
Barn = Growth = Vertical (in this context)
In his commentary on the film, Greenaway speaks of our ability to spot symmetry on a spatial plane. We see the thing before us and we can feel comforted in symmetry, at ease knowing there is balance and order. But over a duration this ability becomes compromised, the acts of remembering and reconstructing seem to obfuscate symmetry. This is where working with motion and duration (soundvideo) becomes interesting to me. I am not a storyteller, or rather I resist seeing things as a beginning-middle-end construction. Time is independent form us, duration is how we define time; these are two very different actions/responses but we conflate them.
Stilled Sprouting Still Looking to the Sky
Time happens all the time; past, present and future (conditional or not) are the same thing to Time, they do not exist in sequence they exist in simultaneity. This is foreign to the mind; like imagining what infinity really means it just slips a few steps beyond our grasp. The word on the tip of the tongue moving towards the throat instead of the lips.
An indication on the land, the colour suggests caution to break the horizon.
Here/Now, the shadows are long all day. The light is like the light in the shadow of the mountain.
The colour red becomes vertical by virtue of presence.
Le temps s’aventure sans nous et nous, nous sommes pratiquement incapables de percevoir le temps derrière la durée. Mais tout cela peu se changer, il suffit de détacher la montre du temps et comprendre que midi à quatorze heures ne veut rien dire au Temps.
Tiny Verticals [Stun]ted Still R[each]ing.