Thanks for the welcome back, Doug, and, yes, it was most interesting to wander
among those installations. The park is huge, and you can wander off into the
forest or meadows and come upon various artworks, and it's also interesting the
relationship that the art takes to the environment, how some works dominate,
and due to their materials, persist, how others have decayed and become so a
part of the environment that only traces remain. I was there with Patricia
Goodrich who was revisiting her installation of Underground Voices, which
involved her burying audio recordings, of various artists, writers, etc, making
statements about art or reading poems etc, on a sort of serpentine path that ran
out of the forest and down into a dip into a meadow. You can walk along,
though it's more like bending along, since the path winds into a grove of birches
and pines, while listening to the recordings which are in the earth beneath you.
The installation is marked only in the spring and summer, when the
innumerable bulbs and wildflowers she planted to mark the path have emerged
and bloom. And those boulders by Abakanowicz are huge, all fabricated, though
they look like 'real stones' that were all somehow rolled and placed there,
though what I remember about them most was the intricate lacing of green
moss and subtly colored lichens that were growing into them.
Have a happy New Year!
Rebecca
---- Original message ----
>Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 09:36:28 -0700
>From: Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: hello
>To: [log in to unmask]
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>Wow, what a neat place. It must have been something to wander among
>those installations. Reminded me, a bit, of Ian Hamilton Finlay's
>Little Sparta.
>
>Doug
>On 31-Dec-05, at 1:33 AM, Rebecca Seiferle wrote:
>
>> Thanks George, and to Ken, Mark, Stephen (And, yes, you're not the
>> only one
>> who stumbles to not call me Roberta!) and Deb for the welcome back. I
>> hope
>> you enjoy the issue, I should have mention some other writers, like
>> Lucija
>> Stupica and Sandra Csoori, rather than just saying 'other stuff.' and
>> it's
>> interesting that you say "Central European" since there's a spot in
>> Lithuanian at
>> Europas Parkas where a small pyramid marks the geographical center of
>> Europe.
>> You can visit the site at http://www.europosparkas.lt/ and take a look
>> at some
>> of the art works.
>>
>> best,
>>
>> Rebecca
>>
>Douglas Barbour
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> Wayne Clifford
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