Reblogged from i-love-art with 11,550 notes / June 2, 2012
THE DISEMBODIED LADY
short animation based on a story from Oliver Sack’s The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, a book of neurological case studies
in which the lady in question loses her sense of proprioception, or the sense that your body is your own. to break her paralysis, she has to consciously move herself in a parody of natural movement. this eventually becomes unconscious and she is fully mobile again- but her movements still seem strange and awkward.
frame by frame animation, made up of 267 hand drawn cells
the book is AWESOME and i highly recommend it!
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Reblogged from bridget-m with 10 notes / May 29, 2012
“Sepulcro” (detail)
Ink/watercolor on paper on board
For Thinkspace Gallery group show “Wild at Heart: Keep the Wildlife in the Wild” opening May the 26th till June 9th.
Reblogged from hatredandvulgarity with 13 notes / May 28, 2012
Jenny Holzer. (1950)
“When I was in graduate school I had done some public things, but they were unsuccessful. They didn’t mean anything, they were abstract. I started writing on my paintings, but that didn’t work either. So when I came to New York the painting fell away and the writing became dominant. I then figured out how to take this writing public - I thought posters would be appropriate. It made sense as a public project.”
“I came to language because I wanted to be explicit about things, but didn’t want to be a social realist painter. I had been an abstract painter and that was the painting that I loved, and that I could do. It’s not that I thought that one was better than the other, but for some reason I couldn’t become a figurative painter. I wanted to be explicit about things, and it became clear that the only other way for me to do it was to use language. People can understand you when you say or write something.”
“I sometimes am criticized for not being a great writer, which I think is legitimate. My writing can use improvement, and if the criticism is sincere, it’s helpful to me. But what is not useful is when there’s some silly competitiveness from people who write for a living and find it inappropriate or unseemly that I write. They do what they do and I do what I do.”
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Reblogged from the-questioner with 161 notes / May 23, 2012
