Off to LA for a work thing.
August 15, 2013
August 10, 2013
Amy Brener & her artifacts of the future
“Amy Brener has developed a method of layering resin, glass and fresnel lens to create light sensitive sculptures. Her recent works resemble artifacts of an imagined future. Some surfaces suggest touch-screen platforms and energy cells. Others are left to chance: to crystallize, crack under pressure and weather with time.
She was born in Victoria, BC and now lives and works in New York City. She holds an MFA in Sculpture from Hunter College and was a participant of Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2011. Her work has been exhibited in New York, Toronto and London.” -Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
I find myself really drawn to these works because they initiate a dialogue about the future, which is always tied to a foreboding sense of unknown, mystery and anxiety. Is there any optimism in these pieces? Is it the beauty of their wasted, twisted forms that recall some kind of destruction? These fossil like forms seem to reference some kind of apocalyptic event, the end of the world, etc, etc. They lead me to question the path technology is taking us down, or perhaps even a new order to the circle of life (technology "returning" to the earth). Weirdly, I find myself wanting to be in a room with them to soak up their weird energy.
take a look at more of her work here.
August 7, 2013
August 6, 2013
~sent~
“I wrote a huge number of letters that spring: one a week to Naoko, several to Reiko, and several more to Midori. I wrote letters in the classroom, I wrote letters at my desk at home with Seagull in my lap, I wrote letters at empty tables during my breaks at the Italian restaurant. It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life.”
-Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
