The Tapestry
May 6, 2007 entry: Land of Fire and Ice
I have always been intrigued by geography and
meteorology. The two are not separate as one can influence the other depending on
the confluence of events. The Earth was formed due to a perfect confluence of
events and voila, here we are! Yet,
billions of millennia later, there are still remnants of The Beginning
that influence our lives today.
It is important to approach life in an
archeological manner as to merely scratch the surface will leave one in a more
clouded position than before. There is too much out there to investigate and
understand as our survival as a civilized species depends on intellectual
exercise.
A current exhibit by contemporary artist, Katrina
Moorhead at the Blaffer Gallery,
Our
natural environments affect us all; it makes us unique and complex.
Consisting of installations, photographs,
sculptures and drawings, A Thing Called Early Blur, (Icelandic hallucination
myth), is the result of
These natural phenomena are infused within
the art of contemporary artist Olafur Eliasson. His
post-Earthworks/atmosphericadts installations for
major international museums such as The Mediated Motion for Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2001 and The
Weather Project for Tate Modern, 2003-04, established him as a unique
artist- Impressionism in 3-D- and Olafur’s recent
2007 Joan Miro award is well earned. It will be an artistic exercise to view his
upcoming 2007 retrospective, Take Your Time: Olafur
Eliasson. Academia survives!
I am reminded of my college years, when I
first became acquainted with the Icelandic group, The Sugarcubes.
Headed by the sublime beauty of Bjork., her voice and style that permeated Life’s Too Good,
1988, was as if she was an ancient sprit released from the subterranean ridge
to the world. In her visceral discography, Debut, 1993, Post,
1995, Homogenic, 1997, Vesperine,
2001, Medulla, 2004 and
To have experienced the birth, growth and
evolution of Bjork is just a microcosm of how
Gabrielle
Lin