Went to a show of Katherine Gray's work at the Acuna-Hansen Gallery in Chinatown on Saturday evening. Katherine is a glass blower, and here she has created an installation 'built' out of drinking glasses (above, right), the effect of which is beautiful and lingering, as is her artist's statement that accompanies the piece: "Because skill is a trap, because the promise has faded, because no one told me about that trap, because our society is increasingly about the simulated experience, because creating is destroying, because we haven't learned from our mistakes, because it is all coming to an end, because I am out of sync, because objects are our history. And because glass is devastatingly beautiful."
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
objects are our history
Went to a show of Katherine Gray's work at the Acuna-Hansen Gallery in Chinatown on Saturday evening. Katherine is a glass blower, and here she has created an installation 'built' out of drinking glasses (above, right), the effect of which is beautiful and lingering, as is her artist's statement that accompanies the piece: "Because skill is a trap, because the promise has faded, because no one told me about that trap, because our society is increasingly about the simulated experience, because creating is destroying, because we haven't learned from our mistakes, because it is all coming to an end, because I am out of sync, because objects are our history. And because glass is devastatingly beautiful."
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