davey board time savers (Day 2)

We went to the Dia: Beacon today. I would describe it as a museum with an unusual amount of windows. My attention was caught in the basement, where there was a series of cast bronze hands by Bruce Nauman. The castings were of two hands; one coming up out of a pedestal and a second resting on top of it cut off just above the wrist, both hands meeting at the fingers. The perched hand was left open at the wrist so that you could peer inside the hollow bronze casting to which there were still traces of ceramic mold clinging. The outer surface of the hands were left raw after the initial sandblasting of the bronze, seams running the length of finger and hands. Each hand split hemispherically, divided by equatorial seams.

In this way the construction is an echo of the hands’ gesture. The meeting of fingers and the meetings of molds. The roughness of the gestures and the rough unfinished construction. As viewers, we ourselves meet with the sculptures. Again, this is not a seamless meeting. There is a sense of intrusion when faced with the two implied persons who are already meeting. In my own work I have become increasingly interested in the means of execution reflecting the concept. I feel this a prime example.

I would have taken pictures, but such things were not allowed. Lest we steal the art works soul. In substitute for photos here is the Dia’s logo.

You know it’s good because it’s Helvetica. And then here's the pathway outside.

Here are some more things I have found out of doors.

When dogs fly.

Judith Supine. And changing gears...

I was worried when I saw this. Did I need to throw my sandwich wrapper on the ground before I threw it away?

paper clip faux pas

I am currently sleeping in Williamsburg in Broklyn where everyone is so hip that my pants size is somehow the largest you can buy in the store and in restaurants people loudly discuss the wikipedia definition of American as it concerns motherhood.


Our loft is very nice. It has a spiral staircase. I feel that it is very New York. Something I would expect to see on a television set. But filmed in LA.



This is the deck outside.



If you turn around a hundred and eighty degrees you can see Manhattan.



Unfortunately this is interrupted by Val Kilmer’s disrespect for property. The kind of thing I would expect from a 1985 “Real Genius” Val Kilmer, but for present day “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang” Val Kilmer I’m disappointed.

Here are a couple more things I have seen on walls.



Space Invaders.



Faile.



Garlic?

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I am in New York. I have been here for over 24 hours at this point. Caitlin and I spent the first part of the trip in SoHo.

Where there are buildings like this that make my trip look like it was to the future. Which of course... it was.

This is where we stayed our first night.

In room 424. I would liken the room to a cage.

But, only because it was. Clearly the choice of low perspective photos on their website was a conscious one.

This is not clam chowder. Just because there are chunks of potato floating in it does not make it so.

There are many nice things pasted to the walls. This is not Swoon as I originally expected, but is well carved none the less.

Where do you go as an artist after you make something like this. I like to think once you get to this point you reach some sort of pinnacle from which you need not make any more art.