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mister finch

“I have an absolute and unwavering belief in that if you make a doll or something jointed with a huge amount of love and intent it gets stored up inside it and something magical happens… so I guess that’s my dream really - hidden away making puppets.” - mister finch

from the daily imprint

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pluto

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For "Mädchenland" Karolin Klüppel spent nine months in the village of Mawlynnong in north-east India, home to around five hundred people. Here, in the state of Meghalaya, the indigenous people of the Khasi form the majority of the population. The Khasi are a matrilineal society. Here, traditionally it is girls who are of particularly importance and who play an exposed role in the family. The line of succession passes through the youngest daughter. If she marries, her husband is taken into her family's house, and the children take their mother's name.

Predominantly in individual portraits, Küppel shows the girls in the everyday life of a child. Playing, posing with a transparent cloth thrown over them like a bride's veil, or combing their hair in front of the mirror. However, the attitudes and expressions of the girls portrayed are by no means what you might expect or assume to see when observing children playing unselfconsciously: hardly any of them are laughing, or running riot. Instead, they seem serious and grown up, unmoved and uninvolved. The prevailing tone of the images initially appears to be one of lethargy and depression; however on closer inspection a completely opposite impression emerges, namely a certain elevation of the girls above childhood, a strong self-awareness and pronounced air of self-sufficiency. But the "Mädchenland" series is neither a decidedly sociological look at a society that is structured differently both culturally and socially, nor does it try to romanticise a specific life situation. Rather, Karolin Küppel succeeds, impressively and expressively, in tracing and making visible the adult bearing within these girls' childishness. The artist achieves this on the image plane through a sensitive balance between documentation and composition.

#photography #karolin klüppel #mädchenland

theleoisallinthemind

Alain Desjean

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The contents of the Massachusetts State House Time Capsule will be on view from March 11-April 22, 2015 at the MFA. The installation will explore the significance of the objects found in the capsule and the role of Samuel Adams and Paul Revere in the original burial in 1795.

The time capsule was found to contain coins, newspapers, a medal depicting George Washington, and a silver plaque believed to be engraved by Paul Revere. In this exhibition, the contents are displayed in front of the monumental Thomas Sully painting, The Passage of the Delaware (1819). The installation will explore the significance of the objects found in the capsule and the role of the prominent figures involved in both the original burial in 1795, and reburial in 1855. Surrounded by related works of art on view throughout the Wing, visitors can also see portraits of Samuel Adams and Paul Revere by John Singleton Copley, coins identical to those in the time capsule, and other historical objects in nearby galleries.

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Doug Johnston

Doug Johnston's work includes art, design, architecture and music, utilizing and exploring a variety of mediums and methods such as installation, fiber art, sculpture, photography, and collaborative performance. Since 2010 he has focused on a process of coiling and stitching rope into a variety of functional and sculptural objects.

Group exhibition: Pretty Eyes, Electric Bills Feb. 5th - March 27, 2015 Opening Reception Feb 12th, 6-8pm Fordham University Lipani Gallery, NYC

Doug Johnston

#doug johnston #fiber art #baskets #contemporary art #Architecture #coiled rope #lighting #form

magictransistor

Rudolph Steiner. Blackboard Drawings. 1920s.

Good Days Gone Cold Days

34 pages, full color 8.5 x 5.5 in solid wax ink staple bound First edition of 50

Good Days Gone Cold Days was made by Sarah LaPonte and Helen Jones in the late fall in Pennsylvania while living in and working on a house without heat, without doorknobs, and without much insulation or electricity to speak of. The photos were shot on dollar store disposables as well as medium and large format cameras that were jammed into carry-ons and heaved with sagging shoulders all the way from the West Coast. In addition to photographs the zine includes writing and a screen printed 'sandwhichville' building permit Sarah LaPonte, an illustration by Pony Jacobson, and a banjo tab by the folks at Quiet American Music. $12.00 from Pine Island Press