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This is not a picturesque landscape. It is an abstract, sculptural representation of an imagined image of a picturesque landscape.
On a postcard, a bridge is not a bridge, it is an image of a bridge, a useless prop of two-dimensionality, devoid of all its functionality. I took this idea of props and focalized my piece around objects that could be used as stand-ins, or illustrations for the originals in their most simplest form. I sought out objects that could merely serve my purpose. Fruit crates, delivered and emptied, turned upside down stands in for the many bridges of this small town. Bricks taken from the crumbling city walls, reminders of a decaying city, a reality directly contrasting to the image of the picturesque. In the end, I sought to challenge the idea, as I feel the images in post cards and advertisements do unconsciously, of what a landscape is. What a bridge is. What a bridge is when it loses its purpose, and becomes nothing but an image, or rather more, an abstract, sculptural representation of that image.
On a postcard, a bridge is not a bridge, it is an image of a bridge, a useless prop of two-dimensionality, devoid of all its functionality. I took this idea of props and focalized my piece around objects that could be used as stand-ins, or illustrations for the originals in their most simplest form. I sought out objects that could merely serve my purpose. Fruit crates, delivered and emptied, turned upside down stands in for the many bridges of this small town. Bricks taken from the crumbling city walls, reminders of a decaying city, a reality directly contrasting to the image of the picturesque. In the end, I sought to challenge the idea, as I feel the images in post cards and advertisements do unconsciously, of what a landscape is. What a bridge is. What a bridge is when it loses its purpose, and becomes nothing but an image, or rather more, an abstract, sculptural representation of that image.
Hey Brennan,
ReplyDeleteHere is a link to a Radio Lab podcast about Brian Greene's theory about the multi universe. very interesting, it came up looking at your personal landscapes project. (You can listen to the podcast while working at your next project;)
Hedwig
PS do you know Radio Lab? It's a fabulous weekly NPR production.
http://feeds.wnyc.org/radiolab
The (Multi) Universe(s)
Posted: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:03:37 -0700
Have you wondered if there is another you out there? Somewhere? Sitting in the same chair, reading the same blog post, wearing the same clothes and thinking the same thoughts? Well, Brian Greene says there must be one. Or two. Or lots and lots and lots and lots and… Why? You ask, well listen to Greene’s argument in this week’s podcast.
We are still furiously working on Season 5, so while you wait we bring you today’s podcast of a conversation between Robert Krulwich and Brian Greene, physics and mathematics professor and director of the Institute of Strings, Cosmology, and Astroparticle Physics at Columbia University. The interview is part of a series called “Giants of Science” hosted by venerable New York institution, the 92nd St Y.
Robert and Brian discuss what’s beyond the horizon of our universe, what you might wear in infinite universes with finite pairs of designer shoes, and why the Universe and swiss cheese have more in common than you think.
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