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Robert Irwin's "9 Spaces, 9 Trees"
Like the coelacanth (or the Son of God, depending on your religious beliefs), Robert Irwin’s “9 Spaces, 9 Trees” rises from the dead!
But, is it still the same display of the avant-garde or a soulless reproduction riding the coattails of nostalgia? Irwin’s “9 Spaces, 9 Trees” (1983) originally installed in the plaza in front of Seattle’s Public Safety Building, was taken down in 2001 concurrently with the demolition of the building. Preservation efforts landed Irwin’s influential work on a grassy patch of underutilized land within the University of Washington campus in Seattle.
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Scotland, Day 2
Days 1 and 2 in Scotland.
The landscape is so totalizing and active. It rains, stops raining, becomes clear, many rainbows. The water is running down runnels in the sides of the roads like tiny creeks – everything is just happening – you see the processes – ancient, long lasting over time and immediate environmental conditions. The rocks by the sea loch are sculpted down to sinuous forms, pockets are enclaves for snails, mussels, scallops. What looks black and forbidding from one angle reveals its beauty from another. The compression of all things – time and matter.
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A Little 3M
Taking advantage of their extended winter break, GSD students, members of the group Life Cycle wind the SCAT (Somerville Community Access Television) building with reflective tape giving some eye candy to passers by. Read on for their statement.
As part of the Somerville Arts Council and ArtUnion's winter lighting initiative for Union Square, we, Light Cycle, capitalize on the existing night time illumination in the Square: streetlights, storefronts, and the car headlights constantly passing through the Square.