Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Depleting 89 marker pens that I received on the occasion of entering the computer age

Toril Johannessen
2008

Depleting is nice. Everything that could be done was done, and look what came of it.

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Prelude

Michal KohĂșt
2009

If sounds of nature must be disturbed by anything, let it be this. Czech artist Michal KohĂșt set a xylophone underneath roofs, gutters, and trees, letting the melting snow strike the bars however they fell.

Saturday, April 2, 2011

Armada

Jessie Henson
2009

Found paintings of schooners on the open sea meet at each one's horizon. Individually, they boast the vastness of the sea, the fresh air, calm, and occasional bout of danger. Edging the perimeter of this angular space, they suggest a time line of fallen ships, regaling cavalier notions of survival and a flat planet.