Pascal: "It is not the elements which are new, but the order of their arrangement"
Heraclitus: "The most beautiful world is a heap of rubble tossed down in confusion (random in some translations also)"
I work with these two simultaneously. (Contradiction/paradox . . . of these, or agreementof them in odd ways--?--) -- I think you'll find these endlessly useful and ever bringing the unexpected--
>From: mwp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: "WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: ANY WAY YOU SLICE IT
>Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 09:12:06 -0700
>
>Wow, thanks for this!
>Mark
>
>
>On Aug 7, 2005, at 9:04 AM, David-Baptiste Chirot wrote:
>
>>At an exhibtion in the Milwaukee Art Museum this summer of Post War
>>Japanese Prints, there is one very large sized one by Ai-O in which
>>the artist has taekn a famous print by Hokusai and cut into 24
>>pieces which can arranged and rearranged over and over into
>>differing new prints. Instead of imitating closely the original,
>>(or cutting up a huge blow up of a repro of it) Ai-O transformed
>>the piece via a Pop Art sensibility, which plays also on the
>>Japanese prints having become part of popular cuture for over
>>century since the Impressionists began using them as models, and
>>their ubiquitous presence the world over as postcards. (One could
>>think of it also in relation to jig-saw pieces, puzzles.)
>>
>> Rather than being a heavy commentary on the original, the
>>piece has a very playful and light feeling to it. It can be read
>>as acknowledging all sorts of art historical/critical issues etc
>>and at same time being just a pop culture puzzle box of a famous
>>image, to be taken lightly in a spirit of Fluxus play.
>>
>> Seeing the Pollock pieces brought the Ai-O to mind, though
>>his is very very different in the sensibility.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> >From: Joel Weishaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >Reply-To: "WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines"
>><[email protected]>
>> >To: [email protected]
>> >Subject: Re: ANY WAY YOU SLICE IT
>> >Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 08:21:44 -0700
>> >
>> >As someone who likes your work, I don't find this piece
>>interesting.
>> >
>> >-Joel
>> >
>> >
>> >----- Original Message -----
>> >From: "mwp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >To: <[email protected]>
>> >Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2005 9:29 PM
>> >Subject: ANY WAY YOU SLICE IT
>> >
>> >
>> >ANY WAY YOU SLICE IT
>> >AFTER Jackson Pollocks Blue Poles
>> >2005
>> >
>> >JPs Blue Poles, subjected to 3 modifications. First, it is
>>sliced and
>> >displaced in the vertical direction over 16 steps, then 16 steps
>>in the
>> >horizontal direction, then both. The image link shows the 3
>>processes
>> >stacked one on top of the other, along with the original Blue
>>Poles at
>> >the very top.
>> >
>> >http://www.kunst.no/bjornmag/mpphp2004/JPBP16Slx2005.jpg
>> >
>> >
>> >mwp
>>
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