I am an artist and I work in a conceptual format. Conceptual art can be difficult for uneducated viewers as it lacks the sedative elements of simpler works. Don’t be confused, art has always been about ideas. From the earliest cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux to the diverse spectrum of content and form that we enjoy today, art is and has always been confined in the relationship between an idea and the expression (in any manifestation) of that idea.
This particular work is a library of bankruptcy law which I acquired through a generous donation. The volumes alphabetically catalog the precedent setting bankruptcy cases in the history of the United States. At its highest, it measures over 9 ½ ft and weighs over 1,200 lbs. It is the sad story of so many of our people.
Today, I am yet to drive anywhere, though I may try to make it over to the mall to get fitted for a tuxedo. Yesterday, I listened to INXS: Kick.
Today, I am yet to drive anywhere, though I may try to make it over to the mall to get fitted for a tuxedo. Yesterday, I listened to INXS: Kick.
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Fantastic work. Wish to have seen it in real life yesterday. It is indeed self-reflexive.
Hey "sum via et veritas et vita", what is all this talk on your blog about THIS? And THIS?
I would post a comment over there, but it appears only bloggers can, I feel discriminated against, lol.
Can't nobody touch James' piece.
I'm thinking this is your first absolutely mature work. A piece to promote/Investigate further. It realizes things that you have been chasing. The totalizing of things...one mark represents EVERY person in Clovis. The ENTIRE length of an avenue captured in video. EVERY bankruptsy case. This one seems the most dynamic. Brings you into the presence. Ok, I'll stop patting on the back now...
Thanks bro, I definately think this piece walks the delicate line of simplicity and conciseness.
jame i enjoy talking art with you. you make me less ignorant. and INXS kick, did you like the "mediate" video??
I just watched it at launch.yahoo.com, man, it is still hot.
Sometimes you kick.
Sometimes you get kicked.
Hmm...looks like a stack of books to me.
I guess I have "art" lying around my office and my home and didn't know it.
I've touched those books, but I don't think they gave me any special powers.
Hey James
I feel a bit privelaged to regularly be a part in our conversation regarding our philosophies and where they differ and converge. Even just talking this project through the different phases you've had with it. It was great to actually be able to somewhat experience the setting you've been working in for the last few years, and you know I'm always looking forward to continued sharing. The picture's great, btw.
Thanks, James
Still just looks like a stack of books.
Jaded, if I may quote your profile statement, "I am jaded at the mindset of doing ministry (particularly children's ministry) in very old fashioned ways." I beg you, allow those of us in art to attempt that which you are doing for children's ministry, to look at it in "new" ways.
J Ly,
Oh I understand that I don't get new art. Don't worry. I see what you are trying to do, I just don't get it. We have different interpretations of what art is.
Is there a difference between a person 'not getting it' and a person declaring that something 'is not art'? Or declaring something is not art because he doesn't get it? Can a person likewise say that because another individual does children's ministry in a new or even maverick way that it is not 'children's ministry'?
Ken, it's been a learning experience for me too. I remember checking out one of Diran's shows five years ago and not really knowing what was going on with the guy walking in circles. I think now I might better understand.
There are all kinds of thought school on what an audience brings to art. Is it still art if nobody connects? Is negative feedback actually negative? Is it about what you're saying or what the audience is taking (or should I phrase that, "what the audience is bringing")?
I think art is taking some mental thing and making it physical. That's how I define it. I feel ok with that, but I understand I'm writing on a site with one commenter with a BA and another with an MA in art.
Ultimately, you learn the most by hearing what others say about art, and sharing what you yourself think. I mean, I said great picture because the exposure's great and it very much lets you know what the sculpture is. Someone else might say it's a crappy picture because it doesn't tell them some new life-guiding philosophy... We all have different approaches.
The blogs are not a place to fight. I notice something interesting about we humans: when the blogs are involved, folks bring baseball bats, rollin' up big time.
Hey, James, Check out this site:
Sol Lewitt
This guy is big time.
Nice.
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