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Christmas-box: OED Word of the Day
Today's word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: 1611 COTGR. Tirelire, a Christmas box; a box having a cleft on the lid, or in the side, for money to enter it; used in France by begging Fryers, and here by Butlers, and Prentices, etc.Artsake: the Blog of the Massachusetts Cultural Council
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latest thoughts are here and elsewhere...
My writing may stay a blog
it may be a book. But what I
want my writing to do is excite the
well boring... Many people want to like Sol LeWitt
because "he is a big deal" or "yeah I like him too"
Or "well my professor likes him". Truth is I thought he was boring.
Sticking to the truth is a more efficient it saves energy.
I received a letter from him after I called him
many years ago...I thought that was cool, eh but his stuff was still
boring, yes it was big, The wall thing though... c'mon man has been doing that for centuries
its what defines written history....I'd call that old hat.
he had some nice things to say about my work then I continued on with my art making.
which was the instruction he had for me...
Ring...
Ring...
Ring...
Bukink ...
Pause
( a female voice comes on the phone)
"Hello..."
I'm thinking :
Oh my god I just called Sol LeWitt's studio. then saying
"Yes is Sol there...?"
"Sure hold on...."
I waited...
I hear this
"Sol?....Sol..."
then I hear some voice in the back round mumble.
Then in the back round..."Its for you..."
"Hello..." said Sol LeWit.
Wow I thought I'm talking to Sol LeWitt I mean his work is kinda eh
I thought but- "Yes my name is Henry Klein...I'm an artist...could you look at my
work? Could you look at my slides?"
"Oh...yeah sure...You have my address?"
"yeah"I said.
"Well, go ahead and send them"
"OK thanks" That was it.
"Goodbye" said Sol.
"Goodbye"said me.
That was one of those moments that you do and not sure why.
That was one of those moments that you do to know that you are really living.
In other words that was an intuitive moment for me. I thought I knew why I was
doing it. But a decade and a half latter, I really know why I did that.
I think I knew on some level how important his work was to me, but its hard
to really understand things when they are not in the right context. Sometimes things come into your life not fully realized. That's what makes life life. Anyway he sent my slides back with a nice note something to the effect of "I write instuctions for people to exucute my work.
And about my work he said "Keep going."
Well that's what I'm doing now.
But back to boring and lack of context
and back to context exciting the boring.
Lines whoaaaa.
Been there done that...
fat one s skinny ones CuRVeeEE ones...
eh...
On the wall!
Eh.
Looking at a Nam Jun Paik projected on the wall
seeing acutal pixels movment within them dark to light
to portray a moving image... If your talking wall art THAT
is cool!!!
Enter Eadweard Muybridge into Sol's life by means of a book
left in a loft he rented...
That flipped a switch for me.
Muybridge I thought was kinda cool investigations of motion with imagery.
We now know that we walk but how we look frame by frame when we walk.
It was one of those Paradigm shifts...For artists anyway.
Observation through frame by frame. Observation that was never before possible.
Meditation comes to mind the space between thoughts... Views of the same thing going through space frame by frame all on the same page ...Simultanoiously...
Ok that is Muybridge.
The two together. Lewitt and Muybridge.
I am now excited about both.
And this excitement leads to Physicist Richar P. Feynman.
Feynman's lectures on QED theory (Quantumn Electrodynamics)
and Sol LeWitt were working on the same problem or knowing the
same truth... That truth is that light has symetry...Its affect on matter sends
bits into the future and bits into the past. Why does light do this?
because really light is instantanious it has no time. its the matter that it bumps into
that creates time. Or rather you wouldn't have one without the other. Does it explain gravity??? NO...but heh were talking the visual anyway right?
Knowing this and looking at Sol LeWitt with a new context illuminates my old wave paintings
in a new light.
I was actually making lines like Sol.
Boring
Boring
lines lines.
Ha ha
ha ha!
But half of my wave was a smear in one dirrection...connecting two points... a line...and then a smear the other way...they make a wave...Back and forth I went all day long...On dirrection then reverse. Hmm, I now think forward and reverse. This desrves great "hmmm".
I didn't use an applied line. I used the mater that was already there... I just added energy...
It is from this point of understanding about my own work and the lectures of Richard P. Feynman and the Work of Sol LeWitt that I will start my Blog of looking at
Sol LeWitt's work at Mass MoCA. Or maybe called "A Review of Sol LeWitt with Quantumn Physics in mind"