i’d love feedback and/or title suggestions for this piece. i’d be honored if it would be our very first thread post-commencement; to commence, if you will.
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I like this painting. would it be an insult to say it reminds me of edward hopper? but its abstraction brings it more depth than hopper.
May 29th, 2007 | #
I learned not long ago that it is more than a little okay to like Edward Hopper, even if you’ve never nursed a cold glass of 3% over a lonely Philly diner stool at 4 am. I certainly wouldn’t say that it is an insult to compare this to his - and I think it is a relevant comparison at that.
I saw this Hopper (expand the window to the right so you see the whole link) recently at the whitney, and jed reminded it to me of yours, inga:
http://www.southern.net/wm/paint/auth/hopper/interior/hopper.woman-sun.jpg
When I originally saw that one, however, it reminded me then of the photographer Gregory Crewdson (scroll over again)
http://www.sudsandsoda.com/notebook/archives/000577.html
They both work with window light - that kind of alienating effect. To me that is kind of a self-reference to the frame of pictorial art (I gave an mcm presentation all about Crewdson’s work, so I’ll try to restrain myself and stop there). I think this is at play in your work inga. What are the materials?
I really like the piece. It is almost like an old snapshot that was framed quirkily and then rubbed with crayons and put through the laundry for a couple of years. All those things add up to a sense of family history (and of course ancestry, loss, support, anger, nostalgia, childhood). That comes through even in the simple pairing of a tall figure and a short figure, and in the blurred (blotted out?) featureless faces. Seems also to be a man and a woman from the 70’s (guy with long hair in v-neck undershirt and girl in bright striped yellow dress with flippy hair). Was this from an old photograph? A larger photograph that you cropped and reinterpreted? I’m tempted to ask whether this was done digitally, but that’s probably crazy. I like the object (chair?) in lower right. The light highlights on the man’s arm and on that are nice.
ALSO:
congraduations on gratulations!
hope your summers are off to a good begin (for this first footfall will determine the REST OF YOUR LIFE PATH, o small feeble ones shielded merely with a sheet of officemax double-thick parchment-style off-white and a geometrically inspired spandex hat). In that vein, I think it’s really great that we have this blog to keep our creativity up and blogging and to keep pushing and pulling each other. It would be lovely if we could duet likeathis all summer and into the future. What do you guys think about… dun dun don… expanding this lil blog into a bigger website, where we could all post pictures, stories, essays, films, poetry readings, breakfastfood recipes, storytellings, ascii art, hyperwebs, plans, music, etcs. I’m thinking about buying a domain on the cheap and figuring out the code. I’m thinking a running blog as the main page, just like here - and then pages off of that per project. Each contributor could have a page, we could organize by theme or materials or nation-state or cyrillic alphabet or nothing(ness).
But let’s also keep talking about Inga’s art!!!! cus thats whut ets allabout!
June 2nd, 2007 | #
i would agree with the comparison to hopper, jed, and it’s certainly no insult. i have to say, i was also excited to hear you call it a painting. i kind of like to think of it as a painting, even though there’s no paint on it. to answer your question, sturgeon, the materials include: wintergreen transfer from a color copy of a photograph taken in the 70s of my grandparents, Bubby and Ben, charcoal, pastel, and crayon. it’s kind of eerie how you always seem to see straight through my work to its raw elements. i like the nakedness of it. it is, in fact, an old snapshot, cropped, rubbed with crayons, and put through the laundry. it wasn’t made digitally, unless you count the fact that it exists here as a digital photograph (with slightly adjusted contrast) of a piece of paper. i suppose it doesn’t really get more digital than that. perhaps that’s a whole other conversation, but it feels relevant to note, given that this image has now shifted from three dimensions to film to photo paper to (fast-forward 35ish years) digital file to digital print to xerox to drawing paper and back to digital file. make of that what you will.
as far as the new website idea, i think that sounds great!! the pushing, pulling, prodding & poking must continue. i like the idea of sharing stories and plans. my only fear is that having a separate page for each contributor might create a more showcase-y feel, rather than fostering conversation… i’d prefer organization by nation-state, or possibly by theme. other thoughts?
June 2nd, 2007 | #
i’d just like to say that i like you people better than anybody else because you would all make incredible teachers but are not plighted by the wretched jane eyre syndrome (primary symptom: abandoning one’s talent on account of one’s duties).
June 4th, 2007 | #
I really want to set this website move thing in action while I’m sitting here at home, waiting to go to maine.
on that account, i need some feedback from this pseudo-democracy we run here, so take up your votive potsherd…
I need to buy a domain name. I had a whole list of them, when I was thunking bout this idea a number of moons ago, but i lost that list. I remember I started out with the idea of www.lepetitmorte.org
(after visiting the website www.beautifulagony.com)
somebody already got the .com, but we could grab the org or net.
(are we an org or a net?)
I was also thinking about calling it
www.laplacedelobservation.com
which is something i gleaned from a wall-card in the LA moca this winter, in their architectural design wing. Derrida helped design a park in Paris with the architect Bernard Tschumi called Parc de la Villette. He was quoted on this wall card as having dubbed one prime spot “La place de l’observation” and that stuck with me for some reason - i guess in regards to watching a film. I just googled it now, and it seems to have something to do with psychoanalysis (probably the position of the psychoanalyst?), but the websites are in french so im not exactly sure.
i actually had one of those “place de l’observance” moments in brooklyn a few months ago when i visited sunset park (the park itself within the namesake neighborhood), i believe it was - anyway it was the highest point in brooklyn. i was real high, and i couldn’t get over this view of manhattan i had, and how it was all constructed for me to be in that specific spot looking out over it, and so instead of me looking out over everything, all i could think about was everything looking at me. nyc just gives me the creeps when im high.
whoa way off topic. anyway, come up with some good name ideas and post them.
should it just be
pinkoscopies.org?
i feel like pinko’s copies should maybe just be the main page’s blog title if we keep it at all.
June 4th, 2007 | #
i love the pinkos copies name.
June 4th, 2007 | #
ok well i think i will buy the pinko’s copies name (perhaps in addition to lepetitmorte or something else, but should it be com, org, or net?
.com:
pro - standardization
con - standardization
.org:
pro - connotes a group of people beyond the website (short for orgy)
con - makes people think we are saving the whales, when in fact we will have to burn whale blubber to power the website
.net:
pro - deleuzian referentiality
con - deleuzian referentiality
June 4th, 2007 | #
i’d have to vote against lapetitemorte. it just doesn’t feel quite right to me. but if you do go with that one, make sure to keep it in agreement. either la petite morte (which i think is the correct version) or le petit mort. i like pinkoscopies the best so far. it feels like home. but let’s hear more suggestions! i’m still thinking on it…
1).org, 2).com, 3).net. true, we’re not saving whales, but i think we could save a soul or two, no? besides, if we go with lapetitemorte, i think only .org would be appropriate, for obvious reasons. plus, the documentary about french pornography already swiped the .com.
June 5th, 2007 | #
ok im buying pinkoscopies.org first off, then
screw la petit morte i dont speak french anyway
if we think of any other good domain names i can buy those too and redirect them
ps anybody know cheap domain registrar/hosts?
June 5th, 2007 | #
Funny, I can’t stand New York except when I’m high.
I’m sorry I know nothing about internets. But I do like pinkos copies best for a title.
June 5th, 2007 | #
Somebody please comment on my last two incoherent postings!
June 5th, 2007 | #
dear friends,
I’ve purchased www.pinkoscopies.org, and a year of web hosting for it.
the site should be up and running within the next couple of days, and hopefully the entire blog can be transferred to the new servers
more info will come shortly
ps ttl, i’ll get to your stuff soon
June 5th, 2007 | #