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October 2015

Oct 23 2015
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Surrealist Watch: Living Time

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Surrealist Watch.

Living Time.

Again, this is something that emerged from the darkness.

What if on your wrist you had a device that let time live? What if it let the last 14 trillion years that have unfolded until now and until you be present as living time? And if it gave some existence to the present as alive? And if it had a face that sat on top and made room for the future? Then time would be quite alive on our wrists and in our lives.

It seems that our current reality about time is pretty flat and dead. Our clocks. Our calendars. The busy now without much past or future.

Yet time is fully alive and unfolding merrily.

Too bad it isn’t considered fully real. So we leave it to the SURrealists to give it a living presence. As a living object.

Enjoy.

Oct 15 2015
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Henry Moore In the Dark

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Jazz about Art. Improvisation about improvisation. Riffing on art.

Not an explanation. An exploration.

Hopefully deepening what can be seen and appreciated in the specific art work.

Henry Moore? Marilyn Monroe? In the Dark?

Why not?

My “What Happens In the Dark” series came from an exploration of what would show up if I started a collage with an all black background. People often talk about staring at a white canvas. Well, what about a black one? What comes out of a black hole, or out of nothing — the seeming absence of color and form?

I found the images in the series to be dreamier. Free. More “popped forward” as if lit by an inner light relative to the dark background.

Which brings me to Henry Moore, Marilyn Monroe, and the dark.

What occurred to me was several things: Did Henry Moore dream sculpture? And if he did, what would be new there? Maybe he only dreamt his best works….

Since Henry Moore sculpted the essence of women, why not get specific and why not explore Marilyn Monroe?

In this “sculpture” by the “out of the black hole Henry Moore” being channeled through dreaming, “Marilyn’s” breasts and hair come out in new ways for Moore. Overall, the patina and lighting give it great life and presence for starting with black nothingness. And in my view, it communicates a solid and well-balanced sculpture even though its existence is given by cut scraps of paper over black paper.

It calls on the magic of the mind making substantial and symbolic interpretations of visual cues — and giving the background context of black holes and dreaming a voice in the matter.

Enjoy.

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