Showing posts with label wooden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wooden. Show all posts

Thursday, 1 February 2018

animal architectures



resin print of mouse neurones // university of lethbridge digital physicalisation lab


beaver sculpture // lethbridge wetlands



Tuesday, 13 October 2015

Thursday, 3 September 2015

Dreamwood By Adrienne Rich




In the old, scratched, cheap wood of the typing stand
there is a landscape, veined, which only a child can see
or the child’s older self, a poet,
a woman dreaming when she should be typing
the last report of the day. If this were a map,
she thinks, a map laid down to memorize
because she might be walking it, it shows
ridge upon ridge fading into hazed desert
here and there a sign of aquifers
and one possible watering-hole. If this were a map
it would be the map of the last age of her life,
not a map of choices but a map of variations
on the one great choice. It would be the map by which
she could see the end of touristic choices,
of distances blued and purpled by romance,
by which she would recognize that poetry
isn’t revolution but a way of knowing
why it must come. If this cheap, mass-produced
wooden stand from the Brooklyn Union Gas Co.,
mass-produced yet durable, being here now,
is what it is yet a dream-map
so obdurate, so plain,
she thinks, the material and the dream can join
and that is the poem and that is the late report.


October/November 1987

Tuesday, 13 January 2015

Inuit Cartography

 
Kuniit's three wooden (tree) maps show the journey from Sermiligaaq to Kangertittivatsiaq. Map to the right shows the islands along the coast, while the map in the middle shows the mainland and is read from one side of the block around to the other. Map to the left shows the peninsula between the fjords Sermiligaaq and Kangertivartikajik." From "Topografisk Atlas Grønland", published by Det Kongeglige Danske Geografiske Selskab, 2000 (pg 171).  

Monday, 20 May 2013

WB wooden horsey


Lehrstücke

Gestus

Gestus, as the embodiment of an attitude, carries at least two distinct meanings in Brecht's theatre: firstly, the uncovering or revealing of the motivations and transactions that underpin a dramatic exchange between the characters; secondly, the 'epic' narration of that character by the actor (whether explicitly or implicitly)
Henry Müller The Geste of Citation: Three Points

Thursday, 17 January 2013

gibbons /// cosimo panel

James Shirley. 1596–1666
  
288. Death the Leveller
  
THE glories of our blood and state 
  Are shadows, not substantial things; 
There is no armour against Fate; 
  Death lays his icy hand on kings: 
        Sceptre and Crown         5
        Must tumble down, 
  And in the dust be equal made 
With the poor crookèd scythe and spade. 
 
Some men with swords may reap the field, 
  And plant fresh laurels where they kill:  10
But their strong nerves at last must yield; 
  They tame but one another still: 
        Early or late 
        They stoop to fate, 
And must give up their murmuring breath  15
When they, pale captives, creep to death. 
 
The garlands wither on your brow, 
  Then boast no more your mighty deeds! 
Upon Death's purple altar now 
  See where the victor-victim bleeds.  20
        Your heads must come 
        To the cold tomb: 
Only the actions of the just 
Smell sweet and blossom in their dust.