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Posted on March 31, 2008 by cboulay
Flight, as Immobilized by Wire
Melanie Conn
Created in response to the short essay Joyas Voladoras, by Brian Doyle, this piece is a visual metaphor and sculptural representation of the “flying jewels” described in the writing. The sculptures are open frameworks, armatures, that hold within them a delicate copper heart. Contrasting ideas are present: freedom in the motion of the birds and the openness of the wire structures, cold lifelessness of the metal.
24 Gauge Wire, Thread
2008
In a Day
Talyah Sands
This piece responds to the unconventional style and powerful images created by Arundhati Roy in her novel, The God of Small Things. The objects represent deep emotional connections [or disconnections] between the characters, which are conveyed in the novel through fragmentation and layering of stories. The detailed aspects of Roy’s writing are channelled through the layering of paint, paper, and meaning, all adding to the many facets of the complexities of the story.
watercolor, prismacolor pencil, graphite, collage
March-April 2008
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Charlotte: I have chosen the following passage to have on the display table to go along with my visual piece….
Sophie Mol put the presents into her go-go bag, and went forth into the world. To drive a hard bargain. To negotiate a friendship.
A friendship that, unfortunately, would be left dangling. Incomplete. Flailing in the air with no foothold. A friendship that never circled around into a story, which is why, far more quickly that ever should have happened, Sophie Mol became a Memory, while The Loss of Sophie Mol grew robust and alive. Like a fruit in season. Every season.
[page 253]
The Perpetual Poke
Ross Karlik
A response to a particular passage in Lawrence Weschler’s book Everything that Rises, this convergence illustrates the innate human interest in the lives of the rich and famous. Just as the “street types” poke their way into the flesh of Jesus Christ in Caravaggio’s Doubting Thomas, we perpetrate the lives of celebrities. This particular cover headlining with Brittany Spears is from the February 2007 edition of Star.
Everything that Rises, MacBook Pro
Apollo Dylan and His Feet
Clara Gamalski
This piece responds to Rainer Maria Rilke’s “Archaic Torso of Apollo,” which appears in the background of the piece. The sonnet focuses on the response a viewer has to a great piece of art, a response which provokes him/her to change their lives. Because Revolutionary Art is an artistic tradition which aims to produce this response in viewers, the figure in the foreground is a hybrid of the torso of Apollo, Bob Dylan (the emblem of the revolutionary spirit of the 1960’s) and a black panther.
Silkscreen ink on canvas
2008
ps- BRITNEY spears (I’m sorry that I know that.)
The Byzantine Lady of Kerala
Noveed Safipour
This series of seven photographs reflect the complexity and many dimensions of the character Baby Kochamma from Arundhati Roy’s novel The God of Small Things. At the novel’s start, Baby Kochamma appears to be an innocent, naïve character—but as the story progresses, it becomes clear that she’s actually the puppet master, manipulating everybody to cover up the lies she’s told. For the novel’s protagonists Estha and Rahel, her actions create terrible consequences that alter the direction of their lives forever.
Olympus FE-23 Camera
March-April 2008
Akward Swan
Andrew Gomes
This piece responds to the painting by Edward Hopper: House by the Railroad. It recognizes the colors and majesty of the house in Hopper’s painting and transforms those ideas into that of a swan. A further parallel is created by using materials that would normally be seen as polutants in the swan’s environment. These materials represent the displacement of the swan (house) from its natural environment (place in time).
Wicker, Glass, Duct-Tape, Paper, Plastic, Metal.
March 2008
Its Human Position
Rachel Applebaum
This piece responds to W.H. Auden’s poem “Musée des Beaux Arts” which, in turn, responds to Pieter Brueghel’s painting The Fall of Icarus. While tragedy, suffering and phenomena are always present in the world, the ordinary and mundane are going on at the exact same time. The human race is complex and it could not be any other way.
Newsprint, High Gloss Canon Print, Found Objects, Pastel
Ladder to the Moon
Danny Regenstein
This piece is my personal re-creation to Georgia O’Keeffe’s Ladder to the Moon. The original is said to be modeled upon religion, or possibly a childhood memory at Ghost Ranch. The picture alludes to a connection between nature and the stars…just something to consider. There are many ways to navigate life, but only one end.
Adobe Photoshop CS3