In today’s issue of Some Things…
A graduation speech, a couple of arts in video form, a google shenanigan, and a couple other don’t-forget-you-have-agency things. It’s been weeks since I’ve seen any of my art-school buds, I’m days from leaving the area where I’ve lived for the last two years, and headed for the next step on heaven-knows-where-this-path-leads with whole new people, whole new place. No summer job lined up and no clue exactly where I’ll be living in the fall… so I’ll take all the encouragement I can get. Buffalo ho! (Wow, does that sound awkward.)
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Art books. Some returned with regrets, some not. A few weeks ago, I had forty five of the library’s books in my possession. Today, they (almost) all go back. The two that I’m holding on to for a few more days: On Ritual and A Day Like Any Other.
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Okay, okay, so I’ve been a little busy and haven’t been browsing the Web too much. Today’s theme lies, suitably, someplace among: communication, articulating things, using words, the limits of words, and the difficulty of finding words.
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Collision of two lines of thought. Some paragraphs.
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On Friday I turned in my first 20-page paper. Its working title was Searching for Utopia... (I think I want to disown the title so I’ll cut it off there.) It’s an interesting essay, though! I read a lot more than I cited.
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Topics: architecture (work and profession), architecture criticism, a Rube Goldberg machine, counterspheres, Damien Hirst, and geohashing.
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Soon. Because I have a notion that I want to do a bunch of photographs of this area, before I go. I have no idea what that gets me. I don’t mind or care.
So if you ever want a lot of 35mm BW film:
This (http://www.calumetphoto.com/eng/product/ilford_100_delta_135_x_30_5m_roll/il0752) is enough for 18 rolls of 36 exposures. $4.08 a roll but you have to buy a lot.
http://www.amazon.com/Ilford-Professional-Black-36-Exposure-1780624/dp/B00009V3CH $6.49 a roll, and free shipping with amazon prime. Probably my best bet.
This (http://www.frugalphotographer.com/cat35mm.htm) is a place to buy cassettes.
I’m rather pleased with this volume, and sorry that it’s not easily available online. Alas, the trouble with exhibition catalogues…! But, still, I have it here, thanks to the library.
The works come off as typologies, but not only as typologies of geography and geology. There’s a sameness within the photographs comprising a work that, for me, turns each into a typology of a segment of the artist’s mind and interests. And I enjoy the works. It pleases me to look at them. The interview provides a bit of insight; I didn’t read the essay, but I might.
This is also a hopeful book for me. Like Eliasson, I collect photographs. The photograph isn’t for the photograph, it’s a way to mark the experience of being there looking.
How do we know that we know, or, as I have asked, how can we see ourselves sensing? (19)
*This is not a book but a catalogue accompanying the exhibition by the same name, presented at The Menil Collection, Houston, May 26 - September 5, 2004. ISBN 0-939594-57-9 Preface by Josef Helfenstein, acknowledgments by Matthew Drutt, Essay (Olafur Eliasson: a cultivated view) by Matthew Drutt), Essay (Seeing oneself Sensing: an interview with Olafur Eliasson) by Matthew Drutt, Plates, Checklist of the exhibition, photograph credits.
I flipped through it. You can too. It wasn’t my cup of tea. The essays and descriptions had an authoritative tone; they came off as pretty dry and art-historical. I ended up skimming; it was late, I was tired, it didn’t grab me. I vastly prefer the wonder of the unknown and hard-to-pin-down. Maybe the intended audience (collectors?) prefer something that sounds like a sure thing. I don’t know.
