I'm in a funk and need to get out. I have no problem watching a movie a day, but find it more and more difficult to get my video projects done. Work or scheduling issues seem to keep getting in the way. An artist I know set out on a project to make a drawing a day as a way to deal with these problems. I've decided to use a Flip camera and iMovie to make one short video sketch a day. Some narrative, some not, hopefully some interesting. We'll see what happens when there are no excuses.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
6.1.10 – Louise
Louise Bourgeois passed away last week. It makes me think of my blog entry from Saturday. If anyone epitomizes a late bloomer it is Louise, not coming into fame until in her 70s. Her passing made me pull out some of my old photo albums, remembering I had seen her Spiders in New York back in 2001 (before 9/11).
I was in the city for what really was a fling; even though I tried convincing myself it was so much more. There’s a line in her New York Times obit about the subject of her art being pain and fear – the fear that the hold of the past has on you. Somehow flicking through those New York images, I thought the fear of the past might seize me, but thankfully, at least this past episode, seems to have lost its grip. The spiders are still stunning.
I almost thought I was looking at a huge spider attacking Fountain Square.
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