c1 - Art in Motion

Play as Being in motion:

Well I pondered 'motion' and this is what came to me :)

The Tortoise & Hare fable teaches us much....in an age of Fast Food, Fast Cars, Fast Internet, Fast Living, Fast Godknowswhatelse, maybe 'nice and easy'  really does do it every time.  You certainly get to appreciate more of the yooniverse that way....and maybe see what you would otherwise have missed in the process, so to speak. Hmmm.

No frills, no fancy scripts (I can't do them anyway) - just 'what's there' I guess.  KISS.  Have a nice day.

<3 Agatha

    THE SECOND COMING -
     by WB Yeats
    
    "Turning and turning in the widening gyre
    The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
    Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
    Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
    The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
    The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
    The best lack all conviction, while the worst
    Are full of passionate intensity."
   
    THE SCREAM  by Edvard Munch
    
    MUCH TECHNICAL HELP  by Storm Nordwind and Bleu Oleander
    
    
    Aphrodite Macbain May 2012

Homage to Rothko
by Bleu Oleander
Art of Being in Motion

While in NYC recently a painting by Mark Rothko sold at auction for $86 million.  I had an opportunity to stand next to it ... it seemed to move and engage me with its presence.  It inspired me to indulge my curiosity and explore his work further.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange,_Red,_Yellow

Last week I saw the play “Red” which is about Rothko.  The following lines are taken from the play during a conversation between Rothko and his assistant.

ROTHKO: Picasso I thank for teaching me that movement is everything! Movement is life. The second we’re born we squall, we writhe, we squirm; to live is to move. Without movement paintings are what?

KEN: Dead?

ROTHKO: Precisely… (He gestures to his paintings.) Look at the tension between the blocks of color: the dark and the light, the red and the black and the brown. They exist in a state of flux – of movement. They abut each other on the actual canvas, so too do they abut each other in your eye. They ebb and flow and shift, gently pulsating. The more you look at them the more they move… They float in space, they breathe… Movement, communication, gesture, flux, interaction; letting them work… They’re not dead because they’re not static. They move through space if you let them, this movement takes time, so they’re temporal. They require time.

KEN: They demand it. They don’t work without it.

ROTHKO: This is why it’s so important to me to create a place. A place the viewer can contemplate the paintings over time and let them move.

KEN: (Excited.) They need the viewer.

For me, art is and has always been a conversation between myself and the artist.  Rothko is a lesson for me to take time to permit the conversation, to encourage the motion of ideas.

Illusory Motion
Art of Being in Motion
Bleu Oleander


The perception of motion doesn’t need to arise from actual action in the world.  In this piece, nothing is really moving other than your eyes.  Stationary patterns create the subjective perception of illusory motion.

"Op Art" took advantage of this effect.  In the early 1960's, Time Magazine coined the phrase "Optical Art" ("Op Art").

Some idea of "motion" seems required if we are to think and speak about "time."  Do we move through time, or do we observe the movement of time?

"Winter is behind us now.  Spring is flying by.  Summer has almost arrived."

In each of THOSE examples, who or what moved is ambiguous.   

Would what was/is moving be clearer to you if I'd said [in the previous paragraph], "In each of THESE examples, who or what MOVES is ambiguous" ?   I mean, would it then be clearer that WE are moving or that TIME is moving? -- even for a few seconds, perhaps? Probably not.

Did we move through winter as a subway moves through a station?  Or, did time move by us in its "passage" out of one season into the next, with yet another season "waiting further ahead"?  Is that future season waiting for US or is it waiting for TIME?

This exhibit attempts to demonstrate the paradoxical incompatibility of the two metaphors we commonly use to express "time" -- As the observer "moves through time" her eyes follow the "passage of time" moving by her. 

[In Praise of Micro Attentions]


He said,
looking
out
over the moss...

...that beauty is...

frustrated
symmetry

the Rippling
Smile lines
of
Time,

showing
its face...

Thwarted
intentions...

I think, I will,

build a sand castle.
But instead

I am just
disappearing
traces

last year's
night blooming
jasmine

Microscopic
organisms
intricate lives

but if not
careful
we
just see
stones.

- eliza

SMILING MOTION

The motion of muscles around the mouth give others cues about what is going on on the inside. I must say that after several tries my smiles were not as inspired. And this leads me to think about how we present our facial characteristics without always being true to feelings on the inside.

Many years inside this body have created some lines that tell stories too.

~ Lucinda

Life is a Beath  - Paradise Tennant

The Girls On The Beach

 Ah ah ah ah oo ooo ooo oo ahh
The girls on the beach
On the beach you'll find them there
In the sun and salty air
The girls on the beach
Are all within reach
If you know what to do
How we love to lie around
Girls with tans of golden brown
The girls on the beach
Are all within reach
And one waits there for you
(Girls on the beach)
The sun in her hair
The warmth of the air
On a summer day
As the sun dips out of sight
Couples on the beach at night
The girls on the beach
Are all within reach
And with the boys tonight
(Girls on the beach)
Girls on the beach, girls on the beach
Girls on the beach, girls on the beach

Beach Boys Lyrics
 
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBLqXAN5cSQ

Stevie's Box

Motion of stillness

With special help and the talents of Santoshima

Every creative act is a journey for me, from concept to construction. Just the thought of spending hours creating a box is most absurd and most satisfying……:)

TREE OF LIFE
is an "Art as Being in Motion" exhibit
by Storm Nordwind  2012-05-28

"a celebration of life as teeming motion"

Storm acknowledges inspiration from a 3D mixed media artwork by Toby Mercer called "Forever Green" -
http://www.tobymercer.com/works-avai...rever-green-4/
- that he saw at the 2012 Downtown Denver Arts Festival on the same day.
http://www.downtowndenverartsfestival.com

Bleu Oleander has kindly made a video of this exhibit (complete with shadows!) here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DumcXamsdyI

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."

What else does the eye see?
Does the eye miss anything?

The radar blips are avatars.
The color shows the speed of that avatar.
Real motion, not apparent animation.
Green means slow; red means fast.
If life means motion, who is more alive?

What is moving?
Does the avatar move?
Does mind move?
Does awareness move?
Does Being move?

*** *** ***

THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
is an "Art as Being in Motion" exhibit
by Storm Nordwind  2012-05-27

                 You are food.
                    You move.
                    You pulse.
             You must be food.
                  I am hungry.
                   Come here.

                  *** *** ***

     This man-eating jellyfish is
an "Art as Being in Motion" exhibit
           by Storm Nordwind
                   2012-05-24

We use expressions like "as steady as a rock.."
However, the apparent motionless solidity of a rock is an illusion. First of all, it is tethered to the Earth and the Earth is  far from being stationary...

'To make one complete rotation in 24 hours, a point near the equator of the Earth must move at close to 1000 miles per hour (1600 km/hr).
The full path of the Earth's orbit is close to 600 million miles (970 million km). To go around this immense circle in one year takes a speed of 66,000 miles per hour (107,000 km/hr)3.
our Sun and the Earth are moving at about 43,000 miles per hour (70,000 km/hr) roughly in the direction of the bright star Vega in the constellation of Lyra.
How fast do we have to move to make it around the Milky Way in one galactic year? It's a huge circle, and the speed with which the Sun has to move is an astounding 483,000 miles per hour (792,000 km/hr)! The Earth, anchored to the Sun by gravity, follows along at the same fantastic speed.
And how fast is the Milky Way Galaxy moving? The speed turns out to be an astounding 1.3 million miles per hour (2.1 million km/hr)!' http://www.astrosociety.org/educatio...wfast.htmlthis

Furthermore, if we looked at a rock under an electron microscope we would find it is mostly empty space, just energy fields.  It is only our perception that makes it seem solid.

Also, rocks gradually disintegrate into soils by weathering. This is on a long timescale. But if a rock is placed in the open air and subjected to slow enough time lapse photography, the rock would be seen to be flowing and changing, disintegrating; it would seem as insubstantial as a cloud.

So, apparent solidity and permanence is an illusion based on our fleeting perceptual time scale. Knowing this, it is easier to see the futility of attaching any labels that suggest anything motionless and permanent to anything, except in a relative sense when it can be useful for us.