From:
abknight@zzzzzz
Date:
Thu, 10 Jun 2004 20:33:31 -0500 (CDT)
Subject:
why carve?
but to all those
Quoted text begins.many, many stone
monuments I didn't react at all. Just cold stone and short
change.
End of quote.
Norman wrote of memorial sculpture at Gettysburg. I
suppose one may have to be in the right mood.
Norman, I find a strong emotional reaction like grief
very unusual in reaction to visual art in my own
experience. It has happened once, though, and that was on
the Internet at the following site
http://www.atsuo-okamoto.net/
Check out his memorials. He is a citizen of Hiroshima and
I believe these sculptures memorialize that city's
destruction by American bombing.
The ladder entombed in stone is just ultra sad to me, when
I think of the soul no longer more to climb. It's very
obvious, very direct. But it works on me. The rock
itself cut into small pieces and reassembled as the rock
it used to be but hardly, I find a sad business of
futility. He has a theme of seperating his stone from
itself, but then returning the pieces back to their home
spots, but their attachments have been broken and they are
now packed not joined. It is some sort of poetics of
nearness with seperation. It's not even been invested
with shape or meaning, just a rough quarry block, known to
none.
Bill
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