tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74444123414044969582024-03-15T18:09:56.298-07:00GALLERY OGallery O is a small studio gallery with exhibitions and writings on the Art of the Miniature. We focus on a large world of artful pleasures, curiosities, small pictures capturing large ideas and the micro made visible.George Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04384038376633106002noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7444412341404496958.post-87622795121122182732019-07-20T20:42:00.000-07:002019-07-20T20:53:06.893-07:00THE CAROUSEL OF PETIT PIERRE<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
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world then evolves into constructions within a house and then takes to the yard
as well. A new world is created to dispel the loneliness and isolation of an
artist that just does not fit into societal norms. </span></span></div>
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machines in the life of man left hem perplexed as he spent his days analyzing
the movement of the gadgets with which he was fond of. Lonely and fascinated by
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carnival-esque attraction is fully functioning and carries little metal
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of which circle around wires and tracks at the turn of switch. This entire
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little time in school and a lot of time working on his metal projects. He began
working on this bizarre miniature wonderland in 1937 and did not finish until
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would become <a href="http://www.fabuloserie.com/?lang=en">La Fabuloserie</a>. The peculiar museum Bourbonnais opened to display
his vast personal collection of Outsider Art is still open in the summer ,
offering to Petit Pierre’s<span style="color: #cccccc;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; direction: ltr; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "google sans" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">ménagerie</span></span> a second life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Painters are sometimes limited in canvas size to how high their studio walls are. Ceramicists scale their works to what will fit into their kiln. </span><span style="color: #cccccc;">Sculptors often think in terms of weight, like what might fall through their studio floor if they make it too heavy. These limitations </span><span style="color: #cccccc;">are sometimes important perimeters that define the work, framing it within the realm where an artist feels comfortable but challenged at the same time to push scale to its fullest expression. Then there are artists who purposely work small.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ron Nagle is a ceramic artist who makes small works. One could say he’s a potter but that would be a miniature description of what he really does. Originally he worked with the shape of a cup way back in the early 60’s but then started working in the ceramic studio of the grand man of ceramic sculpture, Peter Voulkos, who opened him up to the ‘ceramic revolution’ that unfolded during those years of his apprenticeship. Unlike Voulkos, he stuck with the scale of the cup… the intimately small condensed statement of form, color, simplicity along with an unnamable abstraction. The small scale works of Kenneth Price also influenced his long developed vocabulary in the simple and pure forms that comes naturally through hand and clay. Ron takes it as his daily challenge to create stunningly beautiful works that connect directly to the intuitive instincts of making. He says “simple is hard”. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His works float somewhere between the melting clocks of a Salvador Dali-esque melting surrealistic landscape and an enchanted topiary garden of a mad hatter. They have a humor of a standup comedian with an invisible punch line but somehow connecting to a deep interior world. He lives there happily.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He is also an accomplished musician and song writer wandering between melancholic and the beat of a rock band with emotive rich color and dark undertones of humorous but pointed verse. Some know more of his music than his ceramic works yet both blend to make his world a sumptous soup of his own universe.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>"A great song and a great piece of art would have in common the ability to evoke some form of emotion in the listener that they havent' quite gotten before. If you've already heard it or already experienced it what's the point of looking at it or listening to it?"</i> Ron Nagle </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So goes his ceramic works as well down that road of uncertainty and sung with such a grand voice of the hands.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He started experimenting with chewing-gum paintings back in 1998 but decided to work with them full time in October of 2004. For a number of years he had tried to make a difference to the urban environment by painting on billboards, but this was an illegal activity that often led to trouble with the law. The new medium of chewing-gum miniatures allowed him to paint onto already discarded gum spots anywhere without having to obtain permission and without crossing with the law. It enabled him to make his paintings in a spontaneous manner satisfying a certain freedom to show his works in the streets of London. "Our environment is very controlled and what we need so very strongly is diversity. Even galleries, museums, publishing companies are all very controlled, I want to be able to do my work and to bypass bureaucracy", he says. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Starting in Barnet High Street in North London, Wilson started his trail of pictures that people could follow from there all the way into the city. Two years later he still spends a majority of his painting time in Barnet where he grew up and in Muswell Hill, where he, his partner, Lily and their three children live. He has become deeply involved in the lives of the area's residents. "I know a lot of the shopkeepers, road sweepers and the local police. As I walk down the street, every few steps I think of a picture I have to do for someone. I have all this in my head, which makes me feel closer to the place and the people." He hopes his work will encourage in others an awareness of their surroundings and give children a sense of connection to where they live - something he believes fewer and fewer people have these days. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Small boats have been around a long time, probably since the beginning of our nautical history. I imagine the first boat came from watching a leaf float magically on water. Scaled up with the use of a woven twig frame and stretched animal skins took us across that impossibly deep river crossing. There were also logs and eventually dug out log boats. It's easy to see a child's fascination with these and being taught how to carve miniatures to play with in the streams and waterways. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Boats and rivers took on mystical significance in all the prehistory civilizations. In ancient Egypt, large boats on the Nile river ways carried harvested grains, giant stone obelisks, construction stones, pharaohs and their attendant oarsmen, and were used for ferrying across the wide river. The river became a sacred force. The path of the sun was depicted as a disk on a boat, or 'bark' that sailed over the sky from east to west. Small funerary boats were placed in tombs so that the soul could accompany the sun on it's journey after death. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Luigi Prina makes boats... flying boats. He is an Italian architect but also nurtured a passion for toy boat building from a very early age. He was an avid model ship builder for fifty years until one day an artist friend challenged him with a casual statement if you could make one fly, he took up the challenge and to the amazement of his challenger succeeded with a circling light weight boat propelled by a rubber band powered propeller and a wing sail. Fifty years of creating hundreds of these flying boats has made a fantastic flotilla gallery of airships that fly over his head in his home office and studio. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Hair is our extended nervous system connected to our brains letting us feel the wind on our scalps. It warns us of danger when the follicles raise their thin flags. Our hair is our fiber nest for our egg of thoughts, keeping
it warm, decorating our mantle and blowing in the breezes of our movements. It
continues growing when we are cold and gone. It collects in our bath drains, It carries our DNA signature and guides forensic specialists to the scene of our crimes.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Materials within our reach has worked into the lexicon of
artists for centuries. Starting from our nomadic beginnings we adorned,
decorated and marked our bodies using whatever was readily available. Because
of the wandering tribal roots we created our identities with metals culled from
rock and fire, from ground powdered color, carbon and needle tattoos and
matted, beaded and braided hair. Our artful bodies told of our tribal
affiliation, family structure and reflected the deep connections with our
surrounding world. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Our hair has worked itself into the current social fabric as
well. In our language the references to hair collect like hairballs in the
corners of our rooms. A difficult and scratchy endeavor is “wearing a hair
shirt”. We have our “bad hair day”, we seek our targets “in the cross hairs”,
points of contentions are “splitting hairs”, a close call is “within a hair’s
breath”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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of hair kept in a medallion or a braid that is kept in an envelope for years
lying in a drawer, memories of our childhood or a lost love. They keep the past
tangible. Everything perishes except for our hair. By a lock of hair you can
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masks, birds and wolves. These are recognizable images which illustrate stories
about family ties, the living environment and personal experiences. The work is
figurative, but form and proportions are subordinated. What matters are the
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hair. First she started to felt it, and later she spun it into threads, from
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painted with ground hair and pigment to secure the memory of a lost love. In
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">"My sculptural work focuses on making life-like objects from
human hair and other non-traditional fibers. I work with human hair
because of its immediacy, its beauty and flaws. As an artistic material, human
hair is remarkably resourceful. The material never fails to attract and
repulse almost simultaneously, a response I enjoy. As I continue to work with
hair, it encapsulates the survivalist notions I find compelling and am excited
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #444444;"><b><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">EB</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>What is your favorite part about working with
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">EB</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>What kind of response have you gotten from
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my Google analytics and started reading comments on these sites where people
only write comments if they really love something or really hate it. People
were writing such mean things and you can’t help but be sensitive about it.
Especially me. There were comments from people who hate hair, who think hair is
disgusting—unless it’s on someone’s head, they hate hair. A lot of people also
hate insects and a lot of people hate them both so there were a lot of comments
like, “this is the most disgusting thing,” or, “why would anyone spend their
time making this disgusting filth?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">EB</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>You’ve completely transformed the hair from
what it normally looks like so while there is a “gross out” factor, you are
also tricking us by not having the medium so easily discernable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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think that they are real. When I was little I loved<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><cite>Ripley’s</cite>.
I’m totally geeking out right now being in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><cite>Ripley’s Traveling Show</cite><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>next to a car made out of matchsticks.
You can do anything with anything.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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thought, Can I do this? I looked at a moth I had in my insect collection and
tried to replicate it. Eventually creative and manufacturing limitations came
up like, Oh his body should be bigger here, and I thought, I can really do
anything I want, these aren’t for a science museum. But I do like the challenge
of replicating something exactly and do it as close as possible and to hold it
in my hand and for it to look real. They really become dares to myself: Can I
do a praying mantis, can I do a housefly?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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which came into my possession when I was 17. I found it at an antique shop in
Iceland where I used to work. It had a really big impact on me that this hair
came from a person who had died a long time ago. I kept it in a small box and I
really cherished it. This type of flower is called a Victorian memory flower.
It was very common when somebody died to take the hair and create these types
of flowers on a branch with them. Often there would be a picture of the person
and then the flower in a wreath around the picture. Through the elaboration
with human hair, these pieces offer a far more involving and emotional memory
than a picture only could provide. It is a monument, a relic of this person,
because the hair is coming from the body and it doesn’t decay.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">For me hair is the ultimate thread that grows from your body. Hair
is such an original, creative fiber, and sometimes an art form. When it comes
to our hair, we all have to squeeze out some form of creativity. Everybody has
to make a statement of some sort regarding their hair: You have to make a
choice if you cut it or not, simply because it grows. And if you decide to cut
it, you have to go somewhere to get it cut. And then you are always anxious
that it won’t be right. And then there is the drama of the loss of hair. The
Nazis would shave off people’s hair as a way of humiliation. You could go on
and on… It’s been fascinating to me to be able to create an artwork from this
material that is already attached to a person. And I find it at simultaneously
comical, romantic, silly and beautiful.</span><br />
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one with nature. When I came to New York I was fascinated by all the different
types of hairstyles on people and how much goes into taming it. Hair becomes
like a beast growing on us that has to be tamed. In Hollywood movies women let
down their hair during love scenes, so opening the hair becomes a symbol for
unleashing our sexuality and inner savagery. In many cultures women are wearing
headscarves and burkas to hide their hair, because it is considered very
intimate. Then there is the orthodox Jewish tradition of covering the woman’s
hair with a wig made of someone else’s hair. The more I am investigating and
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artist often travels through the dream realm with open eyes, lucid thought and
dream-like strides. Marc Giai-Miniet is an artist/dreamer painter, printmaker,
draftsman, a collector of curious myths and symbols, explorer of the
fantastical and maker of boxed tableaus from an imagination that tours the
dusty corners, libraries and basements of the mind. These are empty places
where unknown events took place and were left to decay from memory. Some
recorded in dusty books on sagging shelves in upper story attics while leaky
faucets, broken and dark basements guard the subterranean levels of the dream.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">I find these works have a deep pull that draws me into the miniature corridors, up the stair cases and through the doorways to see if I can find the traces of the story left here. Marc’s impeccable detailing causes me to pause, wipe a small finger across a dusty bookshelf imagining the abandoned memory of the subconscious.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">"The "boxes" have appeared relatively late in my work
as a painter, as a natural and necessary step, and have become an integral
part, a double play. As a reminder of my teenage desire to do theater and
may be even deeper yet my memories of childhood games pitched battles
between figurines and electric trains installed under the family dining table. These
"boxes" at the start of their production in the years 92 - 93,
repeated the themes of my paintings: brainwashing scene, visit the mummies,
agitation larvae and various transfusions. Small characters were cardboard cut
ballet and existential irony of my painting. Over work, constructions
becoming increasingly large, the characters have disappeared and books, whole
libraries have taken their place in conjunction with laboratories, storage
rooms, or waiting interrogation cells, stairs, Alleyways, ovens, drains or
outbound docks ... I understand that the books were burned, and figured, were a
painful metaphor of human life, both spirit and matter and inexorably doomed to
their fate. Not only because the books can be burned, but sometimes also
by the knowledge transmitted in them, we "burn", we transform while
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saints and by tyrants. Men </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">s</span></span><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">how their books to the beauty of the universe
but also their peremptory chasms. Fragile and ephemeral as they are, they
are able to imbue our minds with the vision of happiness and the possible, of
spiritual enthusiasm and hope, able also to enroll the worst horrors. Everyone
will see, the whiteness of the black books sewers, a journey, a constant back
and forth between the two major poles of man’s bestiality and transcendence,
human frailty and divinely inaccessible".</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The image of a house is central to our ideas of safety, of self reliance, a place to rest after tackling the daily grind. A broken house is caused by the slow fist of gravity or by the breakup of a marriage or death in a family. The house lives on but in a slightly altered state within the mind that inhabited it. In a sense, we embed ourselves into the walls of a form that is little more than a box with roof. The doors and windows allow us to peer from the inside or escape the confines of the limited space. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I remember being small and loving small miniature things. I was a model builder from a young age. Playing with toy train villages, arranging houses along noisy tracks. Sometimes I would play outside in the dirt constructing elaborate toothpick villages and arranging small pebble lined streets between the houses. Twigs made giant trees, insects visited the houses. A small almost unnoticed world of my own imagination waited for me each day. When my parents sold our house the new owners introduced me to their son who was my age. I showed him my village. The next day when the papers were signed I saw that it was stomped flat. It felt like our home had been reduced to a rubble memory as well as we got back in our station wagon headed to another state and a new life. </span></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"My work mines the debris of memory through the creation of intricate worlds sculpted in 1:43 scale and smaller. Often sealed under glass, the works depict the remnants of things past—whether major, transformational experiences, or the quieter moments that resonate loudly throughout a life. In much the way the mind recalls events through the fog of time, the works distort reality through a warped and dreamlike lens.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The pieces’ radically reduced scales evoke feelings of omnipotence—as well as the visceral sensation of unbidden memory recall. Hovering above the glass, the viewer approaches these worlds as an all-seeing eye, looking down upon landscapes that dwarf and threaten the figures within.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Conversely, the private intensity of moments rendered in such a small scale draws the viewer in, allowing for the intimacy one might feel peering into a museum display case or dollhouse. Though surrounded by chaos, hazard, and longing, the figures’ faces betray little emotion, inviting viewers to lose themselves in these crucibles—and in the jumble of feelings and memories they elicit.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The glass itself contains and compresses the world within it, seeming to suspend time itself—with all its accompanying anguish, fear, and bliss. By sealing the works in this fashion, I hope to distill the debris of human experience down to single, fragile moments. Like blackboxes bobbing in the flotsam, these works wait for discovery, each an indelible record of human memory."</span></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His series of photos from a table top diorama entitled "Landscape with Houses (Duchess County, NY) evokes an urban scene of late afternoon light along a group of mundane pastel colored homes. Pushed beyond the realm of the perfect it somehow evokes an abandoned or empty community in a half light.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: #cccccc;">Italian artist,<a href="http://www.danieledelnero.com/"> Daniele Del Nero</a> created a series of architectural scale models constructed with black paper and covered with flour and a layer of mold to create the effect of old abandoned buildings. The houses and buildings crawl with mold and decay to such an extent that they almost melt into themselves. Like lichen covered rocks, they reveal that ancient nature will eventually win over everything people have built their lives on. The effect is disquieting but somehow reflects an aspect of the home as an ancestor habitat ready at any moment to be reclaimed by nature.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jean-Francois Fourtou takes the simple aspect of perceived scale a step further. He draws on his personal memories from childhood and sizes environments to disorient and put the viewer into an Alice in Wonderland room of changing proportions and flipped rooms. They are familiar places with a tuned sharpness of sensation. We remember the undersides of tables, the high jumps into oversized beds and playing in imagined and controlable miniature places. While the works to carry a common thread of connection to childhood metaphors, they set a stage for the memory of “once up a time” in a simple but effective shaking of our present perceptions of this ‘big’ world we inhabit.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The rooms are scaled in identical sets from the very small to the giant. He creates them at his 25 acre estate in Marakesh called Dar el Sadaka. The house and surrounding gardens are populated by large scale, lifelike animal sculptures of sheep, geese, dogs and giraffes and camels. There is a fallen house in a field as well as the giant and miniature scale room installations. His photography features these places changed by the inclusion of the oversized occupant or the miniature man/child. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I came up with the project as part of my university course, and it has grown from there (no pun intended!). Part art project, part labour of love, part experiment, part mission to highlight how shit our roads are – the pictures and gardens are supposed to put smiles on peoples faces and alert them to potholes! I don’t leave any of the props out after we shoot them, I have only ever created low gardens on very quiet streets, mostly dead end lanes and on footpaths in my areas."</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, serif; line-height: 24px;">For more information about Pothole Gardens visit Steven Wheen's web/blog at <a href="http://thepotholegardener.com/">ThePotholeGardener.com</a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #444444; color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And a video bit about about</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8WTlqiwYdQ" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Guerilla Gardening - Richard Reynolds</a></span><br />
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</span>George Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04384038376633106002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7444412341404496958.post-19292845784904505052011-09-04T21:46:00.000-07:002013-01-26T11:19:50.974-08:00OTHERWORDLY – Optical Illusions and Small Realities<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">The current exhibition at the Museum of Art and Design in New York City features a group of forty artists who work in miniature forms. While that might easily convey a model mentality or shoebox show, the ideas and execution of these altered realities borders on the remarkable. The general theme for the show, curated by David Revere MacFadden, brought together a wide range of artists who bring a new vision to the micro world of the hand made.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">The works do tend to lean toward the diorama format but opens up into the realm of built environments for the camera lens, inset worlds into walls, and globed wonders. Many artists make the scenes specifically to photograph, creating tableaus on tables in their studios and basements, setting the scene, the lights and photographing. The photos tend to then be shown in very large format photographic enlargements which make the miniature scale seem even more remarkable. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">The Otherworldly collection of miniaturist works at the Museum of Art and Design is split up in the exhibit into sub-groups and themes through the floors of the museum. These include “Unnatural Nature”, Apocalyptic Archaeology”, “Dreams and Memories”, “Voyeur/Provocateur”. I will include a few of the artists featured in the show. Their names link to web sites, interviews or other information about the artists. Click on the images for a larger view. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">“UNNATURAL NATURE” features work by artists that recreate natural environments or propose alternative visions of landscape and nature.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://patrickjacobs.info/text/contact"><span style="font-size: large;">Patrick Jacobs</span></a> creates interior wall mounted peep holes that are views into super realistic miniature scenes. The cover view lenses give a sense of extreme distance as if the interior scenes extend to a horizon of the imagination. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">He started creating his own world and populating it with fantasy characters that would act out stories in his own self healing therapy project. This project was called “Marwencol”, a small Belgium village built in his back yard that was overrun by GI Joe dolls, Barbie dolls and SS Nazis. Hogancamp created the stories, the scenes and then photographed them. He naturally put himself into the story as the main character and alter ego in 'Hogie'. Each character represented a town friend who was assigned a role in the continuing unfolding drama at Marwencol. The name of the town came from a combination of Mark's name and two women, Wendy and Colleen, who he had crushes with and who helped him through his difficult early healing process. Through the comic strip narrative the story of good versus bad played itself out in countless complex interactions of characters based on his friends and the forces of good overcoming the evil ones. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial;">Along the small Kingston, New York hometown streets where Mark lives a very reclusive life he regularly walks down the road, sometimes dressed in a World War II soldier uniform, and pulls a small army jeep model on a string into town. That’s where photographer</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial;">David Naugle, saw him and asked about the jeep. Mark said he was ‘aging’ it so that it looked more realistic for his photo shoot. David said he would like to see some of Hogancamps photos. An envelope arrived in his mailbox with prints of the photos from his fantasy World War II Marwencol town..The photos were stunning despite Hogancamps crude technical skills with a less than perfect camera. After an article in Esopus magazine appeared about his work,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> a prominent New York art gallery became interested in the collection of the photos of Mark’s “Marwencol” village. His private world and the self guided therapy was thrown into a whole other realm outside of his back yard and into the Art World.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial;"> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial;">Word spread and Mark was introduced to independent filmaker, Jeff Malberg, who directed and edited a documentary film "Marwencol" about Mark’s story. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The film “Marwencol” delves a lot further into the complexity of this story than I’d care to reveal. It is a glimpse into one man’s deep heart, though. Sometimes it feels voyeuristic as this very public media probes the depths of the psyche and how the mind learns to deal with rebuilding what is permanently lost. When a man starts playing with dolls so many assumptions can be made by a society. When the spirit of a man dives into a deep and dark pool to try to heal himself one can only admire the courage and the bravery he takes to piece himself back together again. The documentary is a woven story of this complex tale </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">To view more of Pearl Fryar's Topiary garden go to the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/48654031@N05/sets/72157626948202067/show/">Gallery O Flikr slide show</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;">German photographer and miniaturist, Frank Kunert creates small worlds that slide into a realm of the surreal. In his table top creations he challenges our eyes, makes us look a little closer to the story being told and then makes us look again. His photos of the miniatures bring the dioramas to a level of realism that astounds. There are views that create poetic qualities, silent jabs, some quick humor and dark zones. Most of these places have very little nature. They are views of industrial grey under an overcast sky. No people show up in his creations. We can see them as simply a funny story or feel their grit and leaf blown familiar alleyways. The architecture defines the people that live there and pushes the imagination closer to a lucid state of altered reality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">F K - In my apprenticeship with a photographer I was fascinated of the possibility making illusions with staged photography in the studio. There had been quite banal things like water taps or door handles we had to photograph. But I learned that how you do something and not what you do is the important thing. After my apprenticeship I was busy with advertising and industrial photography, but I knew that wasn't the thing I really liked. I always needed the "quiet place at the corner". And among my commission works I built my first scenes for myself and realized that there were also customers interested in those pictures. Then I had the first commercial works in that way - and that was the beginning of the small worlds for me. In the last years I like to do my own things without any order. That's the best way, watching step by step how the work goes on.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Dolls have always seemed a little creepy. Their silent gazes look out from their painted or glass emotionless eyes and often take on the voice of their little girl caregivers in secret conversations and private friendships. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial;">Looking back at deep history you can find dolls in every culture from ancient Egypt to today’s action figures. They have been used as girls toys to prepare their caretakers for a future of real-life motherhood. Chinese doctors used small ivory dolls for their women patients to point to the areas that corresponded to their hurt in order to retain a modest physical distance from an actual full body examination. In Japan women often carry dolls around with them when their own children have passed on in early deaths in a sign to others of their grief and loss.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Then there are dolls and dollhouses that are used to recreate crime scenes where murders, accidents and apparent suicides have happened. The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death were the result of Frances Glessner Lee, a wealthy heiress grandmother from a privileged family as well as a master criminal investigator. In an age of botched and sloppy crime investigations there was a need for better instructive methods for police and forensic investigations of the growing crime waves of the 1920's and 30's. She founded the Department of Legal Medicine at Harvard in 1936. Later she was made honorary captain in the New Hampshire State Police through her work with investigative forensics. Her childhood fascination with murder mysteries like Sherlock Holmes fed this fascination with criminal investigation. Her work in the recreations of crime scenes pioneered criminal forensic studies and were used as teaching tools for the training of police investigators. She created eighteen dioramas in the early 1940’s donating them to the Harvard Legal Medicine department in 1946. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">The term ‘Nutshell Studies’ came from a well-known police saying: “Convict the guilty, clear the innocent, and find truth in a nutshell”. The dioramas that were created by a meticulous hand are just as valid today and are still used in forensic training. Their detail is astounding and meant to inspire careful examination of the facts of each case. Carefully placed objects and furniture, found as they were by the first responders to the crime scene, displaying and detailing each important clue to what had happened in the room seem to freeze the death in a momentary time capsule. There are pencils that actually write, window shades that move, accurate bloodstains and spattered walls, shell casings, tipped furniture, all pointing to a clue to the crime. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Lee made each of the dolls and many of the details herself with hands that seemed much too large for what she was making. The photos of her working show a concentration and skill that belays that fact. The dolls were given great attention to the detail of the corpse. They were each dressed accurately down to the underwear. She was never satisfied with her work and wanted a closer realism to each scene. Some of the furniture and dollhouse details were ordered from other craftsmen and no expense was held from creating a realistic depiction of each scene. Some of the photos of Lee working reminded me of the love and care that can be seen in the documentary film of artist/sculptor Alexander Calder puts into his toy works, particularly his charming <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6jwnu8Izy0">circus performance</a>. However, there is nothing celebratory about Lee's dolls and their dark rooms..<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial;">But this macabre slant definitely has a dark shadow about it. Her miniature rooms often involved sex crimes, beds spattered with blood in scenes of domestic isolation and showing the layers of lives that ended inside what appears to be normal, private spaces tinged with a captured soul in a place of danger. The life of the typical woman during this time was one of domesticity, property and social complicity to the norms of the feminine life. Lee spent a good deal of her life fighting this stereotype but immersing herself in these scenes of death. Living in an age of women put in their home places, Lee had not gone to college nor obtained any degree after her name but, instead, gained notoriety from the profession of forensic medical studies and criminologists in the Harvard Department of Legal Medicine. Her works are studied to this day across the nation in the field.</span><br />
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.bellwethergallery.com/images/artwork/nytimesweb.jpg">"Murder downsized" by Eve Khan, New York Times</a> (Warning - JPEG; see the San Francisco Chronicle or San Diego Union-Tribune stories for text versions)</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.sameshield.com/press/sspress117.html">"Grandma Knows Her Murders" by George Oswald, Coronet, December 1949</a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/criminal_mind/forensics/nutshell_studies/1_index.html">"The Nutshell Studies of Frances Glessner Lee" by Katherine Ramsland - True TV Crime Library</a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2004/10/24/murder_in_the_dollhouse/?rss_id=Boston%20Globe%20--%20Ideas%20Section">"Murder in the Dollhouse", by Jennifer Schuessler, Boston Globe</a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.villagevoice.com/art/0445,aletti,58214,13.html">"CSI in a Doll's House and the Contagion of Obsessiveness" by Vince Aletti, Village Voice</a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/10/20/HOG359BR7G1.DTL">"Murder is merely child's play" by Eve Kahn, San Francisco Chronicle (from NY Times)</a></span></li>
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<span class="apple-style-span">In my earliest work "Accidentally Kansas" I relied heavily upon manufactured models for railroad hobbyists. I used a shallow depth of field to give it a dreamy quality, like the fuzziness of memories. It also helped to hide my lack of good painting skills. Building landscapes was still new to me then.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span">The scenes I build today are mostly made by hand. There is usually one element I do not feel like creating, such as the piano in "Majestic". I found the piano and then scaled the rest of the scene around it. The size of the piano determined the size of the diorama. My scenes can be as small as 50x60 centimeters and as large as 182 centimeters in diameter. It takes approximately seven months to build and photograph a scene. I build it for one angle of view and never move my camera from that spot. I will change the lighting, the placement of the objects and re-shoot until I'm fully satisfied with the results. I shoot with an 8x10 large format camera and film. I print my own photographs quite large.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span">I have been building dioramas and photographing the results since the early 1990s. As I've working through various bodies of work, from Accidentally Kansas, Lost and now The City, my fabrication skills have improved and my subject matter has become more complex. With The City series I have moved indoors, creating architectural interiors. This has proven most difficult yet most rewarding. Currently it takes about seven months to build a scene and two to three weeks to shoot the final image. I build these in my Brooklyn living room. I have miniature power tools throughout the apartment, a chop saw under the kitchen table, a miniature table saw on top. The computer room doubles as a model mock-up room. There are two of us who work on them, myself and my partner Kathleen. We split the work according to our strengths. I come up with the concept, the color palette and the lighting scenarios. I build the structures out of extruded foam and glue and paint and anything else handy. Kathleen is trained as a glass artist, specializing in cast glass work. She can paint faux finishes and gild architectural details with gold leaf. After I'm done building the structure and painting it, she comes in and adds dirt and distresses the walls to make it look old and decrepit.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span">I am fascinated, maybe even a little obsessed, with the idea of the apocalypse. In addition to my childhood experiences with natural disasters, I also grew up watching 1970s films known as "disaster flicks". I remember watching Towering Inferno, Earthquake, Planet of Apes and sitting in awe in the dark. Here was the same type of dangers I had experienced day to day being magnified and played out on the big screen in a typical Hollywood way. Each of these experiences has greatly influenced my photographic work. The series Accidentally Kansas explored my personal experience with the natural disasters of my childhood. The City postulates what it would be like to live in a city that is post man-kind, where man has left his mark by the architecture, but mother nature is taking back these spaces. Flora, fauna and insects mix with the detris of high and low culture.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">”</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">To see more of the works of Lori Nix visit her <a href="http://www.lorinix.net/">web site</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial;">"The pencil tip is great; it's like a pure, very homogenous material," Ghetti said. "It cuts in the same direction, not like wood, which has a grain. But when I tell people how long it takes, that's when they don't believe it. That's what amazes people more... the patience. Because everything nowadays has to be fast, fast, fast. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial;">Dalton Ghetti grew up in Brazil where he shapened his pencils for school with a razor or a pocketknife. Later his sculptures were large scale and made from stone. Gradually, however, they became smaller works in soap, candles and broom handles before being reduced to the point of a pencil. He now lives in Bridgeport Connecticut where he makes a modest living as a carpenter and spending his free time carving pencils. He never sells his works but sometimes gives them to his friends as gifts. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial;">"When I'm inspired, I can sit down and things just flow". he said. "You can't force yourself to do those things. I do it just for fun, it's pretty much like a hobby, a kind of meditation work that I do."</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial;">"I do it from my heart, I do it when I feel like... and I pretty much do it for myself", he said. "It's my own interest in the small things in life that drove me to call people's attention to them. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial;">One work is a series of pencils each with a letter from the alphabet at the tip of each pencil. Each letter took a month to carve. Sometimes they break but are placed in his "graveyard collection" ... a group of works glued to pins and stuck into a piece of styrofoam. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial;">"It would drive me mad when I would be just a bit too heavy handed and the pencil's tip would break. I would get very nervous sometimes, particularly when the piece was almonst finished, and then I would make a mistake. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial;">"I decided to change the way I thought about the work - when I started a new piece my attitude would be 'well, this will break eventually but let's see how far I get.'... It helped me break less pencils, although I still do break them, it's not as often. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">"Normally I'll start a different piece, but there was a hammer I was sculpting and </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">I broke it about five or six times and I couldn't rest until it was done. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial;">"Also, I never buy the pencils, my friends are always giving me them to sculpt on. Sometimes I use ones I find in the street."</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial;">About his "graveyard collection" he said, "People might think it's weird I keep them but they're still interesting. I worked on them for months so they might be dead now but at one point I gave them life."</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial;">Mr. Ghetti has made over 100 carvings, and is currently working on an epic piece inspired by the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial;">He said, "When September 11 happened I was in tears all day and couldn't do much for a while. I decided to make a teardrop pencil carving for each of the people who died in the attack.. about 3,000. I have carved one every day, it takes me about an hour. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial;">"When I'm done they will form one big tear drop. It will take me about 10 years but it will be worth it."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial;">The opening for the show packed the gallery. There are 109 works in the show by twenty four artists. It’s actually pretty easy to fill the small space with small art and curious people. We have recently expanded the gallery into the greenhouse as well since the plants were moved to the better climate outside for the summer. Despite the late afternoon rain drizzling on the gallery roof and garden of umbrellas, the show drew an appreciative audience.</span></div>
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George Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04384038376633106002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7444412341404496958.post-77849364783210548682010-02-09T21:05:00.000-08:002013-01-26T12:02:46.751-08:00EXTREME MINIATURISTS<div align="justify">
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JmOHfQPi3vc/S3JFlL7kkUI/AAAAAAAAAOI/fMS-hyROUvs/s1600-h/miniature_art_9.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="422" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436484205349736770" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JmOHfQPi3vc/S3JFlL7kkUI/AAAAAAAAAOI/fMS-hyROUvs/s640/miniature_art_9.jpg" style="display: block; height: 264px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" width="640" /></a> <span style="font-family: arial;">In every occupation there are the extremists. There are extreme sports that put one as close to death as possible. There are religious extremists who push the letters of the holy law to stretch the principles of common sense. I’ve run into extreme kite makers who battle for the largest kite in the world award and get carried away by their creations. There are extreme makeovers, extreme pumpkins and extremely rude people.<br /><br />In the miniature world, there are, of course, extreme miniaturists. These are people who make very, very small objects by hand usually using microscopes and very steady hands. When I was working in Hawaii at a tourist marketplace as a sidewalk portrait artist, at the stand next to me was a man who painted miniature artworks on women’s fingernails. One day he showed me his other passion …making incredibly small sculptures out of a grain of rice. I was amazed. He showed me tiny little figures that could fit into the eye of a needle and even a miniature replica of the Taj Mahal smaller than a pinky fingernail clipping.<br /><br />I recently stumbled upon the works of two extreme miniaturists. They both work microscopically, that is, aided by the strong vision of microscopes. The works are incredibly small. Most fit easily into an eye of a needle and can be accidentally blown away by a careless sneeze or inhaled. The sculptures are carved using hand made tools of even smaller proportions. They are painted, in some cases with a brush made from a hair off of a fly’s back. In order to carve them, particles are scraped a micron at a time with a deft precision that baffles imagination. The carving is done between heartbeats so the fingers don’t topple the sculptures off of their perch and loosing them forever.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.willard-wigan.com/Default.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1">Willard Wigan </a>is a micro-miniaturist. His works began when he was a child who had learning disabilities and undiagnosed dyslexia. To avoid the difficulties and harassments in the English school system he would escape to a small shed in the backyard of his home and watch a line of ants working. Feeling like he was also as insignificant as these humble creatures, he started making things for the ants, like tiny little houses and then little shoes and hats for them. His mother discovered his secret hideaway one day and he was punished but it didn’t stop his fascination with these miniature worlds he could create. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;">Are they art, craft or extreme novelty? In an age of the micro-miniature when even the most mundane of everyday objects, the ubiquitous cell phone rings in most pockets and purses, we have accustomed ourselves to small wonders filled with nano-scale circuitry and incomprehensible electronics. We have lost the wonder of the hand made. Its hard to compete against the research that’s going on to create molecular mechanical gears and circuits so small they are invisible to all but an electron microscope's gaze. But for the efforts of the extreme miniaturists they have inspired wonder at all things handmade to the beat of a heart. </span></div>
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<br />George Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04384038376633106002noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7444412341404496958.post-90257379101114080842010-02-09T12:31:00.000-08:002013-01-26T12:03:53.596-08:00BIRD HOUSE<div align="justify">
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<span style="font-family: arial;">Stand by for the next phases of Galley O's future growth. Hmmm... The exclusive Cafe O with very limited seating and maybe even a conference space and convention hall.</span>George Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04384038376633106002noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7444412341404496958.post-5206497229917711422009-04-12T16:07:00.000-07:002013-01-26T12:09:44.961-08:00TINTYPE PHOTO - Through the Lens in 1860<div align="center">
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial;">There is something that happens when you gaze at a photo of a person’s face. The presence and personality make a mark of recognition, even with strangers and people unfamiliar with our own lives. This connection spans generations. Going back in time we can see how the faces are etched with the concerns of the day, how the innocence shines in the face of a child, the look of hope mixed with fear on a twenty year old bride and the wisdom of the aged reflected through wrinkled eyes. A photo brings us to our common humanity.<br /><br />The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintype">tintype</a> photo process was the cheap and accessible form of photography in the mid 19th century America. Tintype photography, also known as melainotype and ferrotype was first described by Adolphe-Alexandre Martin in France in 1853 and patented in the United States in 1856 by Hamilton Smith, a professor at Kenyon College in Ohio. Previous techniques pioneered in France for commercial use were copper plate <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daguerreotype">Daguerreotypes</a> in 1839 and glass plate <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrotype">Ambrotypes</a> in 1854. These techniques evolved to using tin plates, a cheaper and more durable technology at the time. The tintype was actually on iron that had been coated with black enamel. The plate was coated with wet <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collodion_process">collodian</a> and a light sensitive silver nitrate for exposure inside the camera.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial;">The process was simple, fairly inexpensive compared to other previous photo processes and made accessible to eager photographic subjects willing to give a few silver coins in exchange for a portrait. Tintype photographs were, mostly, an American phenomenon. In the years of the Civil War tintype photographers set up at carnivals, on river boats, Northern and Southern war encampments and most places where they could find eager customers. People posed in the photographer’s tent studios, with painted backdrops mimicking the formal painter’s aesthetic for portraiture. The subjects would bring their own props and dress according to their “Sunday best”. The exposures were long by today’s standards and forced the sitters into uncomfortable positions. The photo subjects have expressions of seriousness or even a dower look. Most people had never before posed for a photograph by a professional photographer using a mystical system of glass lenses and an alchemical array of ingredients. It was a serious matter. It was like being confronted by a three legged mythological Cyclops. Very few tintype photos from the twenty year period that this process reigned show spontaneous snapshots from actual non-posed life. </span></div>
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<img alt="" border="0" height="320" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323955070116111874" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JmOHfQPi3vc/SeJ87cJpJgI/AAAAAAAAALA/3U1yppaQR5U/s320/stereotin.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;" width="236" /><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial;">Some cameras used multiple lenses to expose two or more images at once on the tin plates. These were then cut roughly with tin snips and placed into either a paper frame or, for an extra price, into elegant small hinged leather and gilded copper frames. Since these photos were generally small in size, they could fit into a locket or could be sent easily by mail inside an envelope. For the first time, having a portrait made was no longer the privilege of the wealthy class only. Anyone could have their photo taken.<br /><br />These images were drawn from Melanie Walker’s collection of tintype photography and gathered since the mid nineteen seventies. They were found in antique shops from coast to coast and across the country. Some were found recently on EBay. What may stand out is that these photos are of ‘rescued’ ancestors. They are photos abandoned by their families for whatever reasons and left for the larger world to gaze upon. Whether the eye to eye connection is made while thumbing through a family album in a second hand shop or on the wall of a museum photographic exhibit, the recognition is still evident. Here is a picture of a life that was lived gazing out at a world not so different. Today’s photo technology is only slightly faster and more easily disseminated by emailing digital photos of the new baby or sharing a friend’s face on a social networking site. Where will our photos be in 150 years time? Will our portraits look out at a very different world that would then reflect on our simple and primitive means of showing our faces? </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial;">The following tintype photos are samples from the show. There are approximately one hundred and twenty images in the exhibition. Most are very small at between 3" to 1" square. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial;">The show opens April 17th and continues through May.</span>George Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04384038376633106002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7444412341404496958.post-60306964882636912062009-03-17T22:42:00.000-07:002013-01-26T12:15:44.130-08:00THE MINIATURES OF UDVARDY BOGI<div align="center">
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial;">Udvardy Bogi is a Hungarian artist, living in Budapest who makes miniature rooms and other hand sized artworks. In the rooms are objects of everyday use, a chair, a pillow, a book, a stool. But within these miniatures are stories with the unmistakable marks of a careful hand using flights of fantasy and imaginative worlds both private and revealing. She uses the miniature format to concentrate these places into hand held wonders. The following images are from her collection.</span></div>
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GEO – Your works are wonderful. The miniature room series is especially intriguing. Tell me about what started you making the maquette series of rooms.<br />
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BOGI - It began from the Secondary School of Fine and Applied Art. When I was 18, I never wanted to go to any house-parties or drinking with the others. Maybe it was the depression, I do not know exactly. I was always alone in my room puttering with something. One year later, I started making the small interiors and they began to be my real world. At the time I was reading the books of Agatha Christie and from many other writers. I love the classical English style. “The Little Library”,”The Old Wall” and the detective-novels. The 1920 to the 1930 periods inspire me.<br />
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Later, when I traveled to Rome (Clock menus), to Paris (French bathroom) and to Prague, all of these countries inspired me with something…the lifestyle, the fashion, the history, the people’s behavior and their culture. Later I started to make some miniatures and maquettes. (Memento mori, Clocks, Sunday play, Poppyhouse Maison). These rooms were are not just simple models but are situations, attitudes and dreams. They may seem a little bit strange or morbid but I like the beautiful "pink rose" effect with a little black humor.<br />
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GEO - Are these actual rooms or are they imaginary rooms? The rooms have a haunting quality to them as if they are both very familiar and, at the same time, like peeking into someone else's life. How do you view the topics of privacy, interior life, the reduction of a person's things to objects that surround a sitting chair?<br />
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BOGI - All of my rooms are always imaginary, not actual. I think its a more interesting challenge to make something from a fantasy and not to copy from the real or actual. For example, I have made three rooms in the last year. The theme I chose was of foreign internationals living in Budapest. One of African, another was a Transylvanian and the third a Chinese living in Budapest. I wanted to introduce three typical rooms of three nations. I wanted to change some objects from my fantasy so I put some imaginary objects into the small room to demonstrate my personal idea of a life style from these three countries. They are imaginary interiors of what people have brought with themselves from their cultural homeland and to remind them of their own country.<br />
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BOGI - The Vodafone-street project was in Budapest and many other places in Hungary in 2008. The Three Room Project was in Budapest and Wien, Hungary, as well. These rooms were shown in a small spot in an MTV segment. I’m hoping that to make my own little exhibition of my small rooms.<br />
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GEO - How does photography fit in with your works? Some of the miniatures look like they were specifically arranged and lit for the camera. Do you think about the works being for the photo or the photograph being a vital part of the process? </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial;">BOGI – At the present time, the photos about my works are simple documentation. I don’t have any purpose or aim with the photography because it is enough to work and build the mini worlds. But I think the art of the maquette can go a long way with potentiality. I feel like I am only near the starting line with what may be possible in the creation of these interiors. Later, I see the possibilities of photography and start thinking about the interrelation between the photo and the maquette. The interface between the large and small is a new problem in the art and deserves some further explorations.<br />
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GEO – Talk a little about your 'Clock Menus' and the 'Snow Globes'. What is going on in these works?<br />
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BOGI - I spent two years with many trips and journeys abroad. During the travels I had an impression of airports with the convergence of many people, the differences between the nations and the business life that flows through the terminals. This work shows four slices of the nations and how I see the USA, London, Milan and Tokyo. The little snow globes were an experiment to make the a series without a Santa Claus in them.<br />
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GEO - The 'Vodafone' street landscape in an exhibition case on the street…. Describe what this piece is about.<br />
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BOGI - The international telecommunication company, Vodafone has a foundation. This company has a program that supports disabled people like the blind, deaf and handicapped. My work demonstrated the street lifestyle of the homeless people. In the mini landscape I show a park with plants and trees, where the homeless people live. But the park was like a room. In the room was a park bench, like a sofa in a home. There were small pigeons as pets like parrots or canaries in a cage and the street light like a desk lamp. It shows they live in their own room, only it is outside the home but still has the same furniture.<br />
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GEO - And how about the subject of humor in your works. Some of the works have an infectious joy to them while others could be a little scary For example what’s the story behind 'Memento Mori” and about the small skeleton underground smelling the rose.<br />
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BOGI - Memento mori (remember the mortal) means to spend your life in good things without any sins. This was the basic idea. I like the black humor, I like </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Burton"><span style="color: #cc66cc; font-family: arial;">Tim Burton</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #cc66cc;">’s</span> morbid world, and the Memento Mori is a gift to my friend, <a href="http://www.drachen.org/journals/a16/Istavan-Bodozcky.pdf">Istvan Bodoczky</a>, a kite artist, who recently had an operation at a clinic. The message is everybody should live a good life, without any bad thoughts or evil deeds.<br />
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GEO - How many hours do you spend on a typical maquette?<br />
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BOGI - I spend sometimes four to twenty hours on one piece. It totally depends on the size and the detail.<br />
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GEO - What sort of subjects inspire you to make your miniature artworks?<br />
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BOGI - Everything inspires me, from the everyday situations or impressions of the world to one little fleck of glass or plastic that I find. From one little piece junk metal, for instance, I can build a little world around that piece or, on the other hand, I dream up a complete situation and I look for the small objects for it. I use things I find like refuse and trash. I never buy, for example, a complete set of finished goods or a ready made little chair or dish or other things your would find in shops. I construct everything from things most people throw away.<br />
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GEO - Talk about what your next project will be? I know you're already thinking about it.<br />
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BOGI - I want to work with glass. I use the eye-glass lenses for miniature rooms. I want to see how can I demonstrate the narrow field of view that eye glasses are about. I like to think about the concentrated vision of <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gallery-o/3367791095/">The Butterfly Collector </a>or the eye put to the photographer’s lens. Other stories in the lenses include; the English chocolate dessert with a little glass of poison, the telephone chat about love with a white pigeon, the old sailor with his pack of cigarettes, the fast breakfast of a businessman and so on. I want to do some maquettes that imitate nature, the weather, the air, the seasons...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial;">We attend kite festivals all over the world. The kites flown are sometimes of enormous proportions and not only carry away the imagination but sometimes the flyer on the end of the line as well. In many countries there are traditions of miniature kites. Sometimes they are made for fun or for gifts, sometimes to show the intricate mastership of the kite maker’s craft. Some are made with such light spars and papers that they literally float on a single strand of silken thread.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gallery-o/3268288420/"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300928988351138834" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JmOHfQPi3vc/SZCu1FI9jBI/AAAAAAAAAD4/QKC7KK5FJtI/s1600/bat.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a>They can be made smaller than the wings of a fly. Some can fit into a pocket. At one kite festival in France we witnessed a small bat kite….made from the skin of a real bat. While visiting the Air and Space Museum in Washington DC, and looking through the exhibits of kites, airplanes and other flying curiosities I came across a glass case with some early ultra-light model gliders with micro thick film wings. These small planes could fly on a breath. Looking closer at one, it had been fitted with four small flies glued to the wings for propulsion.<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gallery-o/3267305349/"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300932816648520914" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JmOHfQPi3vc/SZCyT6qLxNI/AAAAAAAAAE4/jMA7E794Tw0/s320/Leap+Frog+George+Peters+-+USA.jpg" style="float: right; height: 320px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 160px;" /></a><br /><br />In art school I remember a graphic design class project of designing a postage stamp. The image had to be strong and bold to show well. Later, when I started to make kites I found the same graphic rule with kite design. When the kite soared to a couple hundred feet it became postage stamp size. The trick was to make it still show up well. Some miniature kites are the size of stamps or smaller. I've seen some that are hardly show up with a magnifying glass framed with bamboo spars, bridle lines and miniature spools. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial;">SMALL SKY will continue through February 2009</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial;">LINKS:</span><br />
<a href="http://miniatures.kitingusa.com/">http://miniatures.kitingusa.com/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.drachen.org/pdf/learning-japan/Meet-the-Kite-Maker-Yoshizumi.pdf">Nobuhiko Yoshizumi</a><br />
<a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=travel&res=990DE4DE113CF933A15757C0A96E958260">New York Times article</a>George Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04384038376633106002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7444412341404496958.post-41147476932803046412009-02-04T22:58:00.000-08:002013-01-26T16:02:47.906-08:00BIG WORLD - small world<div align="justify">
<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JmOHfQPi3vc/SYqOuwTvFJI/AAAAAAAAACo/kP4LtdZaJzw/s1600-h/toy+truck+1.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="393" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299204845447615634" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JmOHfQPi3vc/SYqOuwTvFJI/AAAAAAAAACo/kP4LtdZaJzw/s640/toy+truck+1.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="640" /></a> <span style="color: silver; font-family: arial;">Ever since I can remember I have loved all things miniature. Now I see the connections to the deep thinking and patterning of a growing mind. We grow up getting accustomed to the big world by playing with smaller toy versions of things we see around us. Our toys can later become our obsessions in our adult life.<br /><br />I can remember creating whole worlds around toothpick villages, clothes pin dolls, toy trucks moving dirt along miniature construction site roads, making mud pies and sand castles. Miniature model ships were fitted with broom straw railings and sailed into the dreams at night when the sleep began. It was a world just as real as any, this world created out of nothing but a dash of imagination and a sprinkle of pretend.<br /><br />Toys are played with by children in every culture fashioned from stick to plastic. Kids mould their worlds of imagination through them. The puppets, the dolls, the trucks and games all contribute to making sense of the world through miniature means. The dreams we have when we are young are like a prayer or a wish for how we would like our lives to be when we “grow up”. This concept of play creating the mind is vitally connected to the way we teach ourselves to think and create patterns of behavior and discovery. The small childhood worlds become our own real lives lived in full scale.<br /><br />In younger years I visited natural history museums along with my family. I remember the miniature dioramas of native villages, with hogans, cliff dwellings or pueblo villages done to such a degree of detail that tiny pots had been painted with authentic patterns and clay sculpted women grinding miniature ears of corn could be seen under the small glass cases. The dioramas all brought these lives of ancient people to vivid, but miniature life.<br /><br />The world of the miniature has been around for a very long time. The definition of miniature carries a wide range as well. Early man drew remarkably elegant pictograph drawings of the hunted prey to either bring success in the hunt or to celebrate their kill on the walls of caves. The body adornments that graced the wandering tribes were small out of nomadic necessity, made beautiful for the enhancement of the wearer. There was a time when, during arranged marriages of royal lineage that the image of the betrothed one was made in a </span><a href="http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/paintings/miniatures/miniatures/index.html"><span style="color: #6666cc; font-family: arial;">miniature portrait</span></a><span style="color: silver; font-family: arial;"> that could safely travel to the chosen neighboring kingdom royal family. These portraits were often the only image that the future young husband or wife would see until their wedding day. The portraits were painted with great care and often creative liberties were taken to make the prospective future family member appear worthy and attractive.</span><br />
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<span style="color: silver; font-family: arial;"><br /><img alt="" border="0" height="234" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299210567694477650" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JmOHfQPi3vc/SYqT71Vs6VI/AAAAAAAAADQ/ZT-rmgxFs4E/s640/willkommen.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="640" />Architects create miniature models of buildings to convince clients that their grand designs are worth the investment. Shipbuilders would model out their plans in pine, string and miniature plank. Ship <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JmOHfQPi3vc/SYqPjKAZwgI/AAAAAAAAADA/svUWA1Yim0w/s1600-h/polynesian+stick+map.bmp"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299205745699045890" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JmOHfQPi3vc/SYqPjKAZwgI/AAAAAAAAADA/svUWA1Yim0w/s200/polynesian+stick+map.bmp" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 181px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 200px;" /></a>voyage maps and the cartographic miniaturization of the sea routes have served for the opening up of the world’s trade market and colonization from the European expansionist empires. The Polynesian navigators mapped islands using their knowledge of wind patterns and ocean swells and used </span><a href="http://thenonist.com/index.php/thenonist/permalink/stick_charts/"><span style="color: #6666cc; font-family: arial;">maps of woven sticks</span></a><span style="color: silver; font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #6666cc;"> </span>and cowry shells to plot island positions and conveyance. Mapping is the miniaturization of the land and sea to set voyages of discovery and plan family vacations.</span><br />
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<span style="color: silver; font-family: arial;"><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JmOHfQPi3vc/SYqTHsvqVvI/AAAAAAAAADI/pnI1AfKBS6s/s1600-h/dolls+1.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="320" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299209672034244338" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JmOHfQPi3vc/SYqTHsvqVvI/AAAAAAAAADI/pnI1AfKBS6s/s320/dolls+1.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;" width="221" /></a>Dolls can be trainer babies for the real thing later in life with the practice of care and dress and groom. In Japan, when a woman looses a child its considered socially acceptable for the grieving mother to carry a doll around as a symbol of her loss. She cares for it like a real child to ease the pain. Dolls are used for shamanic focus in rituals and voodoo spell binding. There is an ivory doll, well known in the orient that is used in countries that maintain sanctity in the privacy of a woman’s body. This doll is used by doctor and patient to point to “where it hurts”.<br /><br />The play of shadows on a screen or wall have entertained for centuries and is directly related to our present day shadow and light show…the television and cinema screens. Photography itself is a magnifying lens focusing our world onto a miniature light sensitized plate or film or digital sensor. What remains is a flattened miniature print of the effects light and shadow on a form or a landscape.</span><br />
<span style="color: silver; font-family: arial;"><br /></span><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JmOHfQPi3vc/SYqbQIqP4NI/AAAAAAAAADY/Iy3z7u3wRvg/s1600-h/javanese+shadow+puppets"><span style="color: #6666cc;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299218613059707090" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JmOHfQPi3vc/SYqbQIqP4NI/AAAAAAAAADY/Iy3z7u3wRvg/s200/javanese+shadow+puppets" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 133px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 200px;" /></span></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave"><span style="color: #6666cc; font-family: arial;">Plato’s allegory</span></a><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: silver;"> of the cave of shadows tells volumes about how we are entranced by the dance of images pretending to be the light of reality. In several cultures the shadow show performances have used puppetry to teach anything from French and English humor to the tales of the monkey king and the Ramayana in the all night Javanese shadow puppet performances.<br /><br />We now study small specks of light on photographic plates and ultraviolet red shifts to determine orbits of the largest stars in the universe so that we can discover the invisible planets that may orbit those suns. We have sent exquisite radio controlled vehicles (controlled, more than likely, by scientists who played with radio controlled toy cars as children) to roam the surfaces of nearby planetary neighbors looking for microscopic evidence of bacterial life or fossils. We map the shape of the known visible universe to look for the smallest evidence of life. Big and small, macro and micro. It is the way we make sense of our place here in our tiny little home on our little blue planet in the sea of unknowns. </span></span><br />
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George Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04384038376633106002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7444412341404496958.post-30213147050282446242009-01-23T13:15:00.000-08:002013-01-26T16:06:02.342-08:00OBAMA - The Inaugural O Show<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gallery-o/sets/72157613011879219/show/"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294606537913676498" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JmOHfQPi3vc/SXo4mB3OMtI/AAAAAAAAABE/iiwsyaPsdmg/s1600/at+lunch.bmp" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial;">The first opening exhibition is a collection of over a hundred news service photos from Barack Obama’s early life, marriage and family, his career as a law professor, community activist, through his rise as a senator in Illinois and his campaign for president, and the Washington DC Mall inauguration. The captured moments are sometimes poignant, humorous, grand and small. The exhibit gives a real look into the life behind the platform and what led up to this man's rise to the highest office in the world stage. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial;">The opening brought many friends and neighbors for the inaugural exhibit featuring our new president. A large screen live telecast of the evening's inaugural parade and ball festivities was shown in the next door studio theater. In mid January one would think the outdoor gallery opening would scare our "Colderado" people away but it was a balmy 65 degree night with lots of warmth being thrown toward our new president.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial;">Opening January 20th, 2008 - Continuing through January 30th</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial;"></span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gallery-o/sets/72157613011879219/show/"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296221912003568850" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JmOHfQPi3vc/SX_1xLSc5NI/AAAAAAAAACg/7kXqfmh5zms/s1600/Obama+Family+at+the+Democratic+Convention.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial;">See a <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gallery-o/sets/72157613011879219/show/">slide show </a>of more photos from the Gallery O exhibit, "Obama - A Life In Pictures" </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial;">UPCOMING SHOW - SMALL SKY - Opening February 3rd (George's Birthday!) to February 24</span></div>
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