The Book of Atrix Wolfe / Ombria in Shadow by Patricia McKillip
(art by Kinuko Y. Craft, http://www.kycraft.com)
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1. Studies of the arm showing the movements made by the biceps (c. 1510)
2. Studies of the muscles of the neck, shoulder, chest and arm (c. 1509-10)
3. View of a skull (c. 1489) -
J. Seward Johnson - The Awakening (1980)
The Awakening is a 70ft statue of a giant embedded in the earth, originally installed at Hains Point, Washington, D.C. The statue consists of five separate aluminum pieces buried in the ground, giving the impression of a distressed giant attempting to free himself. The artist is known for his large-scale sculptures, however, this piece is considered his most dramatic work.
I’m reading The Great Hunt right now by Robert Jordan and I have twice encountered massive pieces of face statue and hands holding crystal orbs from the Age of Legends just chilling on islands and in quarries and this is pretty much exactly how I picture it
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Erika Harrsch DRIFT, 2012
There’s something really great about this and I can’t put my finger on it. Clearly I’m a whore for juxtaposition, but that aside… It’s composed of “four etching copper plates, one Lithographic plate- five inks and one digital print on cotton paper.” How do you even think to make something that complicated?
These elements create a swirling constellation around the page that is at once respectful of and untethered to the laws of gravity under a sky that is like an ocean. Even though the imagery is secular, there’s something almost religious in the depiction of rise and fall. It’s a wonderful commotion, more chaotic than the linear theory of a world of upheaval born from the flap of a wing. - Randall Miller for Daily Serving
Baroque, but well said.
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