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PL calendar day 20 – Sunday – Find a good balance between your Present and Past Experiences
Without forgetting your original intent, continue to develop your own path by also relying on your knowledge and experience.
Oyashikiri
it is all about the lines,
the patience of placing each rock and boulder, just so..
sun and shade..
soft and hard..
Yin/Yang
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Art-in-Buildings alum Mary Mattingly is featured in the Fall show at Boulder Creative Collective, on view through October 27!
Artsy fartsy in the BoCO
The sociality of softness (Photo: Krista Jahnke). Boulder inspired lounge art in Vancouver.
"The project is fabricated entirely from post-consumer and post-industrial waste from the metropolitan Vancouver region. The installation, an equal collaboration between Matthew Soules Architecture and AFJD Studio (Amber Frid-Jimenez & Joe Dahmen), engages tactically with these materials to produce soft forms that extend the typical range of active and passive social activities, fostering unexpected social encounters and new perspectives on the city."
And guess what? They all look like boulders, but soft ones that you can lounge about on. While NYC Boulder Blog is generally a greater fan of the real thing, these teflon-filled facsimiles certainly seem like an excellent bunch of items to fill the urban landscape. I mean, really, who doesn't like art that encourages you to sprawl out with both your friends and complete strangers?
LA boulder's grand entrance brings people to tears
A few months back we reported on the efforts to move a 340-ton boulder to the LA County Museum of Art. Well, apparently it finally arrived. The boulder, an art piece called Levitated Mass by artist Michael Heizer, a California sculptor, traveled for 11 days from a quarry 60 miles away. Clearly LA appreciates Boulders as over 1,000 people showed up to check out the grand entrance. From the NY-Times article about the arrival, "As Sandy Martin, a retired television producer, who had waited nearly three hours for this moment on a warm night drenched in moonlight, stated, 'As far as I’m concerned, it’s like the Pyramids... We’ll never see this again in our lifetimes. I cried when I first saw it.'"
The boulder convoy on its way to LACMA. Photo: Monica Almeida/The New York Times
But, as with all art, Boulder Art is not without its controversy. Not wanting to be left out of the Boulder mania, another artist has offered his boulder for LACMA's collection. Mark Vallen has a 100-ton boulder, which he calls "Alleviated Masses" and stores in a secret desert location, which he has offered to LACMA for a cheap $1 million - significantly less than the $10 million that LACMA paid for Heizer's piece. With the savings, Vallen suggests that LACMA could then "help create a critically needed first-rate arts curriculum for Los Angeles school children, put into action an expanded artist residency program, and have enough left over for the purchase of artworks from contemporary artists having a hard time due to the economic downturn.''
NYC Boulder Blog does not want to get involved in such political discussions, but sincerely hopes that both of these artists, and the many others within the genre, continue their efforts to enhance the view of boulders in the public eye.
Artist Mark Vallen with his boulder. Photograph by Jeannine Thorpe ©
What's better than a boulder on your sidewalk? A boulder on your sidewalk covered with a lovely doily or some other form of ornamentation! Artyarn, a UK-based collaborative knitting and crochet project, did just that in this fantastic project. More info in the link above.
As per the link above, apparently the LA County Museum of Art is having trouble moving a 340-ton boulder that is part of a new installation - Michael Heizer's Levitated Mass. There seems to be little precedent in the area's bureaucracy for boulder transport. The project is a fascinating example of Boulder Art and you can read more about in this earlier Times article
Photo by Monica Almeida/The New York Times
