Trip to Laguna Art Museum, 04may01
An overly
simplified description might be: plastic boxes
of different shapes & sizes,
meshed together, and filled with either rose- or mint-colored
lights .. in a dark room,
with no other lighting.
Wendy said the room would be a great place to shoot a scene.
At
a party in LA a couple of months ago, we met a professor who teaches Sculpture.
She is a
big Hendee fan, and is the one who told us about the exhibit .. since we live
so close to the
museum. She added that few modern sculptors use clay & bronze
anymore, cuz
they get expensive to work with. Most use 'alternative' materials
(anything
cheap).
Another exhibit
at the LAM is titled Cyborg Manifesto -
The Joy of
Artifice (pix here).
One
part of the C-M exhibit consists of 10 drawings, framed, and hanging
together on
a wall. The drawing are from an isometric
perspective, in the style of today's video
games .. of scenes of popular cultural
events.
For example,
one drawing framed the scene containing the bodies of Nicole Brown
Simpson
& Ron Goldman lying dead at the Bundy residence. I had never seen the
actual
crime scene before, but I knew right away what it was.
At
the time of the murders, Nicole's parents, the Brown family, lived less than a
mile
away, in Dana Point. We'd see reporters & camera crews camped out in
front of the
gated community where the live(d) .. all hours of the day &
night.
Wendy was surprised that I could identify all 10 scenes so quickly. (I was too.)
Thumbnails
of 20 scenes are here.
You can
click on each thumbnail for a larger image.
See how many you can identify. The
large (gruesome) image of Nicole & Ron is here.
It's
obvious that the artist did his homework, and carefully researched the details
of
each scene.
