i did this a couple months ago for a class assignment. it’s generally been deemed “perplexing” and “odd,” but I can’t say I’m entirely surprised by that response. i’d be curious to hear what you think. i’m not quite sure what I think of it, yet, myself.
for some reason I read the title and thought it said “often nothing is sad,” which I immediately picked up on with the egg shaped objects which were half bright, half dark. But with the real title, I suppose it is perplexing. I like the visuals, the way the shapes seems to be instilling shadows into each other. and there is something unusual here about the background and foreground, as jed may have been pointing out. but I don’t translate the visual impression i get from the work into anything having to do with language, of nothing being said. i think that may be too distancing a title
This drawing goes perfectly with the song Random Summer by Mum off the album Yesterday was Dramatic – Today is OK. I feel like your drawing is an extreme close up of a display at a science museum, as the janitor looks at it through monochromatic night vision goggles. As a side note, I just looked out the window at a car and said to myself, without hesitation or irony, what great resolution this image has!
I love that album… oddly enough, I was actually listening to Mum as I was working on this piece (the album Finally We Are No One). Try it with the song Faraway Swimmingpool. Or perhaps We Have a Map of the Piano. And, in fact, the assignment had to do with creating an extreme close up… I initially created a set-up that was at least 15 times the size of the part I actually interpreted into this drawing. so that was a pretty damn accurate reading, Tyler. And I agree with you about the title, Alex… I have trouble with titles, and I think I screw them up more often than I get them right. I also tend to have a problem with distancing, so there you have it. thanks, all, for the honest feedback.
I don’t have that album, but I’m downloading it now, and I’ll smoke some stale weed and see if I can get the Dark Side of the Wizard of Oz thing going on with your work here. YWDTIOK has one of my favorite songs ever, which is asleep on a train. Just because of the title, and then the next song, awake on a train (which is also great).
see, now Mum knows titles. not only does asleep on a train feel like asleep on a train, and awake, awake, but I love how they use titles to imply diptychs on both ywdtiok and fwano, even when the paired songs aren’t adjacent. and yes, they are strikingly similar songs. songs good to listen to in the dark with a flashlight, which is how i like to look at my own work, as well. either literally or figuratively. you can move the shapes and feel them moving in the spaces behind you. as soon as you turn the flashlight off, that’s it, everything’s buried, and you know that much less about how it all works.
i did this a couple months ago for a class assignment. it’s generally been deemed “perplexing” and “odd,” but I can’t say I’m entirely surprised by that response. i’d be curious to hear what you think. i’m not quite sure what I think of it, yet, myself.
December 4th, 2006 | #
A riddle: what is “there is no other place of which one can say with so much certainty that one has already been there.”
it reminds me of this homecoming, of the warm initiation.
A background and a foreground, a field and a subject. The latter I’ve alluded to, the former is jagged.
it’s been a busy day on Pinko’s.
December 4th, 2006 | #
for some reason I read the title and thought it said “often nothing is sad,” which I immediately picked up on with the egg shaped objects which were half bright, half dark. But with the real title, I suppose it is perplexing. I like the visuals, the way the shapes seems to be instilling shadows into each other. and there is something unusual here about the background and foreground, as jed may have been pointing out. but I don’t translate the visual impression i get from the work into anything having to do with language, of nothing being said. i think that may be too distancing a title
December 4th, 2006 | #
This drawing goes perfectly with the song Random Summer by Mum off the album Yesterday was Dramatic – Today is OK.
I feel like your drawing is an extreme close up of a display at a science museum, as the janitor looks at it through monochromatic night vision goggles.
As a side note, I just looked out the window at a car and said to myself, without hesitation or irony, what great resolution this image has!
December 4th, 2006 | #
I love that album… oddly enough, I was actually listening to Mum as I was working on this piece (the album Finally We Are No One). Try it with the song Faraway Swimmingpool. Or perhaps We Have a Map of the Piano. And, in fact, the assignment had to do with creating an extreme close up… I initially created a set-up that was at least 15 times the size of the part I actually interpreted into this drawing. so that was a pretty damn accurate reading, Tyler. And I agree with you about the title, Alex… I have trouble with titles, and I think I screw them up more often than I get them right. I also tend to have a problem with distancing, so there you have it. thanks, all, for the honest feedback.
December 4th, 2006 | #
I don’t have that album, but I’m downloading it now, and I’ll smoke some stale weed and see if I can get the Dark Side of the Wizard of Oz thing going on with your work here. YWDTIOK has one of my favorite songs ever, which is asleep on a train. Just because of the title, and then the next song, awake on a train (which is also great).
December 5th, 2006 | #
wow Faraway Swimmingpool and Random Summer are incredibly similar songs
December 5th, 2006 | #
see, now Mum knows titles. not only does asleep on a train feel like asleep on a train, and awake, awake, but I love how they use titles to imply diptychs on both ywdtiok and fwano, even when the paired songs aren’t adjacent. and yes, they are strikingly similar songs. songs good to listen to in the dark with a flashlight, which is how i like to look at my own work, as well. either literally or figuratively. you can move the shapes and feel them moving in the spaces behind you. as soon as you turn the flashlight off, that’s it, everything’s buried, and you know that much less about how it all works.
December 5th, 2006 | #