All Things Art & Photography
Laura Mvula is brand new on the music scene this year and as we draw to a close on 2013 she stands out as one of the best. When she sings there seems to be something that could only be interpreted as pure joy emanating from this young woman.
Music Break: Laura Mvula- Green Garden (live the Bowery Ballroom)
She (Live at Century Club)
(And now for a little bit of self promotion…)
“All the Light Projection prints are 8×10″ handmade, unique and one of a kind silver analog prints. Light is projected through an optical lens onto silver black and white photo paper and then developed in the darkroom via my entropic processes I have developed over the years to bring out certain varied aspects of the print grain by the manipulation of the silver metals in the paper using a variety of darkroom re-development techniques, brushes, bleaches and toners (and in these images a dash of Solarisation).
The prints are camera-less and film-less images – but they are not Photogram’s (nothing was placed on the surface of the paper). So I call them Light Projections. I am still trying to figure out if these have ever been made in the history of photography – in quite this way – as the circles are purely optical in nature and are really those “Bokeh like” Circles of Confusion that a lens can produce.”
Light Projection Variation #2 46×66″ edition of 5 (from unique silver gelatin prints)
Light Projection Variation #1 40×95″ Edition of 5, (from unique silver gelatin prints)
Light Projection #4 36×46″ Edition of 5, (from unique silver gelatin prints)
via www.studio-4a.com The Light Projections of Thomas Brummett
Nice interview with Hiroshi Sugimoto about how he works and more importantly thinks about photography and especially time and memory.
From his still unfinished 42 year old desert project named Star Axis to his work with light prisms and solar burns Charles Ross has spent a lifetime exploring the relationship of light and nature.
“Ross’s earthwork, Star Axis, is located in the New Mexico desert. It is both architectonic sculpture and naked eye observatory. The approach to building Star Axis involves gathering a variety of star alignments in different time scales and building them into sculptural form. Walking through its chambers you can see how star space relates to human scale and how the space of the stars reaches down into the earth. Ross conceived of Star Axis in 1971 and began building it in 1976 after a 4-year search through the southwest to find the perfect site—a mesa where one stands at the boundary between earth and sky. He’s now finishing Star Axis with a crew of local stonemasons. It’s made with granite, sandstone, bronze, stainless steel, and earth. When completed, Star Axis will be eleven stories high and a fifth of a mile across”.
via Charles Ross.
“Large-scale prisms are suspended in skylights and clear stories. Each is specifically aligned with the sun to project huge blocks of solar spectrum into the architectural space below. The spectrums continuously evolve throughout the day, expanding into bright washes or contracting into brilliant bands of solar color as they move through the space propelled by the turning of the Earth.
Each artwork is specific to the architecture and its location on the planet. The ultimate goal is to create a nexus of solar spectrum artworks around the globe so that as the spectrum sets in one location, it is always rising in another”.
via Charles Ross.
From way down under comes something we have not heard in quite a while. In Rock Music the last time anything this good (and female) came along was a girl name Chrissie Hynde and the year was 1979. There are high hopes for Ms. Barnett…
Music Break: Courtney Barnett sings Avant Gardener (Live)