Thursday, June 10, 2010

(adam), a prototype

i recently finished a new piece, which is intended to be one of a series (or a piece with several elements). the series is called (adam). the context is an exhibition of artists' books. the original intention was to produce 7 books, which would be strung together and would collectively be my height. which i still plan to do. the various books will correspond [roughly] to the 7.5 heads theory for drawing human proportions (a la da vinci's "vetruvian man" etc).

i remember reading somewhere once how the book as an object has a lot of human descriptors: it has a head, a foot, spine, left side, right side, it has thoughts and opinions...and that led to the use of (adam) as the title, in turn also referring to a'dam, hebrew for 'earth', hence the sand. this in turn led me to reflect on how the same elements comprise everything in the known universe. you can quote either job or moby here, but the earth we walk on and the stars in the heavens both come from the same place and are made of the same stuff. more to come.



4 comments:

Wenda said...

Really looking forward to seeing the rest...nice beginning.

techne said...

thanks - it turned out well even though i felt pretty rusty while working on it. luckily, the other six aren't at the same level of completion so i can still go back and make the necessary changes for the entire piece. hence, "a prototype". at least aden thinks it's cool -- he wants one for himself.

Jack said...

Excellent. Is this a new bit of text? It's familiar, but it really goes with this lightbook/artbox.

techne said...

it is a new piece of text, but it is supposed to sound familiar...the main point is how it connects/ opens up the image/ object