away

i cannot forget
i cannot remember

like parts of photographs cut out and pasted on a collage. (x age in years, days, or hours)
the glossy scraps are put together haphazardly, as if in a rage
or
the glossy scraps are put together with the seeming precision to solve a puzzle

regardless, they are not in order. chaos in two ways, an order of no order.

i am an artist trying to figure out whether or not my work is finished
but at this moment, i pour water over it.

space.

Excerpt of Richard Serra's commencement speech at Williams College in Massachusetts:

Richard Serra

Sculptor

Williams College

I have no problem with the virtual reality on your screens as long as you are aware that it is virtual. My concern is that experience by proxy is a poor substitute for the reality of the interactive space we inhabit.

As a sculptor I believe that perception structures thought and that to see is to think and conversely to think is to see.

The virtual reality of the media, be it television or Internet, limits our perception in that it affects our sense of space. It immobilizes our ability to apprehend actual physical space. Don’t let the rhetoric of simulation steal away the immediacy of your experience.

Keep it real, keep it in the moment. No one perceives anything alike; we only perceive as we are and it is our individual reality that counts.

sources:
Commencement Address 2008: Richard Serra - If Not Now, When?
NYTimes Commencement Speakers: Messages of Exhortation, Counsel and Congratulation

- Jenny

murakami

"I open wide my eyes but see no scenery. I fix my gaze upon my heart. That I may time transcend, that a universe my heart may unfold." (2007)









"Mr. Murakami, who is frequently called the Japanese Andy Warhol, is an astute manipulator of visual languages, artistic mediums and business models..."

"...stuffed with questions of art and commerce, high and low, public brand and private expression, mass production and exquisite craft."

"...Mr. Murakami’s stated desire to make art “that makes your mind go blank, that leaves you gaping.”

Mr. Pointy

Flower Mantango, 2001 – 2006

LV wallpaper

DoB Strange Forest, 1999

Kaikai and Kiki animation still

links:
NY///OPENING NITE WITH TAKASHI MURAKAMI AT THE BROOKYN MUSEUM...
Art Review | Takashi Murakami: Art With Baggage in Tow

Fighting the Fakes: Louis Vuitton and Murakami Make a Show of It
This Is Not a Sidewalk Bag



- jenny