Yes, Doug, your comment makes me realize I could have used the word "improvisation" to sum up what I find lacking in Goldsworthy's Spire - what makes the piece rigid, or static, instead of permitting the play and fluctuations (changes) one can get with a more 'porous' approach.
We have William Kentridge coming to this town Friday to open up a show of his work and films at SFMOMA - if I can rob a seat I get to see him perform on Friday. Then I will see his opera with puppets et al at the end of the month. That all should be incredible for us here.
Well, maybe not as exciting as the discovery of the one known portrait of Shakespeare! I susptect it was hard for a painter to get the guy 'to sit'!
Stephen
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
--- On Tue, 3/10/09, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: New de blog: President Obama's First 100 Days
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 7:49 AM
Stephen
the haptics are neat, but especially with the commentary, which also takes off
in so many directions, tied to those 100 days but not constricted by the concept
of them, exactly what you feel the Goldsworthy large pieces fail to achieve. in
little, yes, but improvising on the run the run of things....
Doug
On 9-Mar-09, at 2:13 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
> Astonishingly enough, we, at least in the USA, are coming up Tuesday on
the 50th day of President Obama's first 100 days in Office - the
conventional time frame for setting out the template of a new Regime. As
intended, on my blog I have made a haptic drawing a day with additional
reflective commentary (&/or the commentary grows out of making the haptic).
> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
> OBAMA DAY 48 - The “Spire” by Andy Goldsworthy at the San Francisco
Presidio.
> OBAMA DAY 47 - Chinary Ung performing Mother and Child, (Viola &
Voice), Other Minds Music Festival at the Jewish Community Center, San
Francisco.
> OBAMA DAY 46 - The President labors hard to be clear.
> OBAMA DAY 45 - The pluralities of the Nation are within us.
> OBAMA DAY 44 - Beckett, Godot, the Nation & The Tree.
> OBAMA DAY 43 - The Lake that precedes the lake we know…
> (continue, as you may!)
>
> As always your comments are appreciated. Unfortunately spam issues keep
the public comment box closed.
>
> Stephen Vincent
> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>
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