Taking to heart Take Your Time, we should all take time looking at Bouguereau.
There must be an infinite number of possible thoughts on any one piece of art, but we will only cover seven, a weeks worth. For 52 weeks, through 2009, you will see a work of art from the Portland Art Museum* and a riff each day inspired by it – prose, poetry, photos, video, thoughts or ponderings.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Another Nature's Fan
“You become responsible for what you see... The surroundings are relative to your engagement.” So saith Olafur Eliasson, the Icelandic artist whose retrospective toured the United States with shows in New York, San Francisco, Dallas and other places. The Ventilator was part of this exhibit in which Eliasson exhorted visitors to Take Your Time, the name of the exhibit. His works make the viewer use all of their senses and most of the time not in their traditional ways. The docent in New York spoke of the fan in the lobby bringing the "wind" inside. As it whirled around the lobby, you felt it and heard it and saw its source. Outside you would feel the wind and hear it and see its effects. There are many articles on the "internets" about this exhibit; I've linked to one from Dallas.
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