surface depth
A BUTCHER'S #6
rethinking
It's a problem when paintings aren't leaving the studio and space is limited - this is a painting from 2021, finished and even posted on Instagram. Something bothered me about it and a few months later I did another painting on top of it. So this is now under another painting, possibly even two. I’m looking at it now and thinking maybe I should have kept it - oh well. I suppose I could have another go at it - do a better one!
3 in a row
focus
What do I like about this photo? Besides the boxiness and angled shadow, there’s the sky that isn’t the sky, but another box building that matches
on the Art round
There is a smaller room on the side at Pace where there is a pretty great show of Irving Penn photos, curated by Hank Willis Thomas, titled ‘kinship’. Looking at Penn's photos in real life is something else. All with an even tonal backdrop, the subject may be a celebrity, an anonymous sitter, a cabbage or a piece of rubbish, but the attention to detail is equally respectful under his analytical eye.
The angled installation walls echo a studio set up of his, working well here in directing one to look at relationships between these paired photographs, how they compliment each other - very different from looking at a singular image.
If you're in New York it's well worth the visit - up until February 22nd
Check out the show here: Irving Penn at Pace
postcard world
Meanwhile back on the holodeck - a fabulous advertising card from the 60s
who knew?
Louis Bernard Woeste applied for a patent for a ‘myriad reflector’ in 1917. The sphere was offered for sale by his Cincinnati-based company beginning in the 1920s, promising to fill dance halls with ‘dancing fireflies of a thousand hues’
