a provacatively dressed blond tell you “this is a sad movie” and then pouts
then you watch a vase of tulips, as dramatic music plays and builds and then finally a single petal falls. the music builds again and the tulips wilt the slightest bit and then it ends.
this sounds very beautiful i wish i could have seen it.
tonight we went to the academy of natural science, to hear a talk by richard barnes (animal logic).
it was really interesting and at the end someone asked if he will one day photograph his own works that are in museum collections. he brought up the idea of theater, and had this performance where people in lab coats wheeled a casting of a whale skeleton inside a wooden armature across the street.
i was always fascinated by dioramas, i remember my last trip to the natural history museum and being amazed by the backgrounds that seem to stretch so far back into space, and the way sand was stuck down on the floor around the feet of dead creatures that are revived in these situations–so much effort is put into the reality of these totally unreal scenes.
his work explores this, so it was a worthwhile trip into center city.
ps he also documented the birdnests of urban birds–what they take from us to make their shelter.
