"Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees"- A book about Robert Irwin
Robert Irwin is a man with one hell of a conciousness for perception. Lawrence Weschler wrote a book about him. I read this book recently and it changed the way I think about the role of art in the perceptible world, the role of the artist as an empirical investigator, and in general, it changed the value of my conciousness in perceiving my world. If that isn't enough to make you wanna at least crack the spine of this book, the vantage of Irwin's life given in it by Weschler is certainly sufficient. Weschler unearths a wealth of artistic investigation, personality and intuitive creation as he unfolds the journey Irwin has taken from his days of a second wave abstract expressionist, through the minimalist painting period, his seemingly empty rooms and the later large scale installation projects. Irwin's life outside of his art investigation parallels it in pure focus, energy and freeness of action as Weschler points out his fascination with custom car culture and the science behind horse race betting. This book opens a whole building of doors for anyone interested in the way we value what we see.
Bruce Conner
Conner makes things that you see and at once you are dizzy with pleasure, fright and pure mind-jambling curiosity. He makes your eyes trip. And he does all this using a fairly traditional framework of charo-scura based illustration, etching and ink-blotting. O and his video art, which most praise as his strongest output. Based in San Fransisco, Conner gained most of his recognition by doing nylon-webbed trash assemblages. Everybody knows him by "The Child", a piece in reference to the execution of California death row inmate Caryl Chessman, which many believed to be caused by the backwards nature of the judicial system of the time. I would pose the opinion that this assemblage and the others Conner did in the late fifties and early sixties are wrongly given higher interest and position over his illustrations and two dimensional work, which are, again, truly amazing. Based solely upon the detail, composition and subject matter of series' such as CHRIST, MANDALA, BOOK and others, his 2-d work is the most visually inspiring.
the birth of lamella
at three o'clock on sunday the 22nd of november in chicago a lamella flew off of a newborn and landed on the internet, giving entity to both a mortal being and a souless lifeless mythical energy soup that will forever lust itself upon the denizens of this inner net
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