The Tapestry
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