Visionary Artists

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Glad other people like some of this stuff!
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Leonora Carrington

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Sorry, I meant Marilyn Minter. I can't upload her stuff I like because I am on an old tablet! But her stuff is incredible, esp if you see it in person.

Ah, I believe I saw her work at the Gorgeous Exhibition in the SF Asian Art Museum. I recall the beautiful heels in the muddy water photos from there.

MARILYN MINTER

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Thanks, Sci. I actually have two books on Minter (both gifts) and wish I could scan some of her more interesting work.

I first saw her work at sfmoma. I didn't know there was an exhibition at the Asian Art Museum. Sorry I missed that!
 
Awesome stuff Sciborg!

I tell ya, I don't know if he is into psychedelics but Giger cuts so close to some of my induced visions it is as creepy as the guy himself.
Psilocybin especially invokes this alien bio mechanical thing for me. Even the female here reminds me of an entity I have encountered/manifested a few times. She is a lot of fun. :)


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The Science of Dust, Picasso’s Favorite Phenomenon

And you know what’s responsible? It’s dust! The earth doesn’t have a housekeeper to do the dusting. And the dust that falls on it every day remains there. Everything that’s come down to us from the past has been conserved by dust. Right here, look at these piles, in a few weeks a thick layer of dust has formed. On rue La Boétie, in some of my rooms … my things were already beginning to disappear, buried in dust. You know what? I always forbade everyone to clean my studios, dust them, not only for fear they would disturb my things, but especially because I always counted on the protection of dust. It’s my ally. I always let it settle where it likes. It’s like a layer of protection. When there’s dust missing here or there, it’s because someone has touched my things. I see immediately someone has been there. And it’s because I live constantly with dust, in dust, that I prefer to wear gray suits, the only color on which it leaves no trace.
 
This was incredible. Is this what DMT is really like?

Kind of hard to answer, visually there are some amazing similarities in the clip. But the experience is not like watching anything as you are immersed in it. Vision mixes with sound and emotion in synesthesia. The forms seem alive, they speak but not with words. Some people think it might be like dreaming or watching a cue of visual halucinations or distortions. Absolutely not. It goes beyond the physical senses, and all those familiar senses can become blurred into one.

Gotto to say though, my first thought was the FX artists must have had to do some very interesting research by the looks of it. It is an awesome representation. I used to be an FX animator btw. Would have loved to have worked on that sequence.
 
Artists on How Pink Floyd Influenced Them

Not long after they first emerged in the underground music scene in mid-1960s London, Pink Floyd earned a reputation, as Rolling Stone put it in 2007, as the city’s “farthest-out group.” And as art students at the time they got together, the band members — the bassist Roger Waters, the singer Syd Barrett, the drummer Nick Mason and the pianist Rick Wright; Barrett was later replaced by David Gilmour — firmly believed their aesthetic was as important as the notes they played. The Floyd, as they were known, provided audiences with a complete sensory experience, pairing visceral, operatic lyrics with elaborate light projections that seemed to move in turn to the music. And even as they achieved global popularity in the 1970s with a string of landmark albums including 1973’s “The Dark Side of the Moon,” 1975’s “Wish You Were Here” and 1979’s “The Wall,” the band remained focused on bringing visual ideas to the forefront through their live shows and iconic album art.

It’s no wonder, then, that Pink Floyd has inspired countless visual artists since. As the band prepares to unveil its first unreleased material in 20 years, the largely instrumental album “Endless River,” T spoke with four contemporary talents to learn how they first discovered the band and ultimately drew upon its work to influence their own.
 
Some Words about the Poem.

"Poetry can bring joy, it can ease grief. It bridges different worlds & myriad cultures.

Poetry can bring rain & make the crops grow. It smoothes the path for the traveler and brings sleep to the feverish child.

Poetry is our heart’s cry and our heart’s ease. It constantly renews our seeing: so we can speak the constantly changing Truth..."
 
"In the centre of Fedora, that grey stone metropolis, stands a metal building with a crystal globe in every room. Looking into each globe, you see a blue city, the model of a different Fedora. These are the forms the city could have taken if, for one reason or another, it had not become what we see today. In every age someone, looking at Fedora as it was, imagined a way of making it the ideal city, but while he constructed his miniature model, Fedora was already no longer the same as before, and what had until yesterday a possible future became only a toy in a glass globe.

The building with the globes is now Fedora's museum: every inhabitant visits it, chooses the city that corresponds to his desires, contemplates it, imagining his reflection in the medusa pond that would have collected the waters of the canal (if it had not been dried up), the view from the high canopied box along the avenue reserved for elephants (now banished from the city), the fun of sliding down the spiral, twisting minaret (which never found a pedestal from which to rise).

On the map of your empire, O Great Khan, there must be room both for the big, stone Fedora and the little Fedoras in glass globes. Not because they are all equally real, but because all are only assumptions. The one contains what is accepted as necessary when it is not yet so; the others, what is imagined as possible and, a moment later, is possible no longer."
-Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
 
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