believe it or not, this is exactly what I was thinking when I was working
on the series. The Degas dancers are bronze, sometimes with wire netting
for the tutu, but always phallic, as if the legs were falling apart,
tumored. I have no idea why they're as popular as they are, but then Degas
leaves me cold personally. In any case, they seem 'safe' icons in an odd
way, and I wanted to present otherwise. It was difficult shooting at the
Norton Simon - you're allowed to without flash, but not exactly that
close. -- Alan
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Lanny Quarles wrote:
this is interesting alan. my sense is that the rough frayed topology, and
really its gridding,
of the head covering is a kind of analogy for mappings; libidinal, aesthetic,
sensory, personal, linguistic, etc.
also in the sense of a weaving, mappings as weavings or vast constructionist
integrals in a calculus
of embodiment, and the sense that the rough edges, the "severed' or
'cross-sectional' (sampled?) topology,
as it were, is a reflection of coding practices, or the praxis of
instantiation by/within the individual agent,
an imperfect "imaging" of larger vectors, dogmas, genetics, beliefs, etc. am
I even close?
And even the idea of the physicality of topology as a kind of 'filter'
(re:perception) is reflected
in the synthetic pixel filtering beneathe the shroud-topology. as if the
coding of the filter produces
not only inner instantiations but external ones as well, which of course is
the abolition of the
subject/object dichotomy in any deconstruction which in this case seems to
point to "constructionism"
as it universal agent.. perhaps the frayed edges define the deconstructive
agency, as if this particular
individual or object has been wrenched from the grid, and these loose fibers
represent a kind of
annoyance to the smoothness of the artifice of "culture" or "perception" as
an institution of the socium.
lq.
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Subject: Degas' Dancer, deconstruction, the west
deconstruction of
deconstruction of Degas
deconstruction of Painting
deconstruction of Impressionism
deconstruction of The West
deconstruction of Culture
deconstruction of Perception
deconstruction of The Real
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