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BEAUTY: Sculpture--Mihoko Ogaki

Japanese conceptual artist Mihoko Ogaki's series "Milky Ways--Breath" features fibre-reinforced plastic figures of dying or dead people with entire galaxies or even universes inside them. Small holes in the surface of the figure allow star maps to be projected onto the surrounding walls. This simple yet profound image is breathtaking in its scope of meaning. The pieces are rife with the ideas of cycles, transformation, transmogrification, macro and micro, and our connection and place in the reality around us.

http://www.mihoko-ogaki.com/index.html

I am sure I have posted these images before, but here they are again because they are so relevant to the art of Ogaki.

Just a little reminder...

Trip To Nowhere

It's Snowing

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“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments but what is woven into the lives of others.”
--Pericles

Happy Birthday, Carl!

Today would have been Carl Sagan's 78th birthday.

Happy birthday, Carl. Thank you for your mind, your work, and your legacy.

Halloween Costumes

"In the fall of 1969, the days grew shorter and colder and the colors of the maple, oak and elm trees in my little village in upstate New York were magnificent. It was and still is my favorite time of year. I don’t recall any specific Halloween before this and I can’t remember going Trick or Treating dressed as anything special but this year my parents wanted to dress me up as something called 'Howdy Doody.' My mother told me that he was some sort of television character from her childhood but I had no idea who this 'Howdy Doody' was—and what a bizarre name. She dressed me in dungarees and a red and white checked shirt with a bandana around my neck. She put bits of red yarn in my hair. With some of her make-up pencils, she drew freckles on my cheeks and two lines running down from the corners of my mouth. Then, my parents took me downtown and put me in the annual kid's Halloween parade and costume contest. My mom instructed me to walk by the judges with my arms up and swinging because, she explained, Howdy Doody was a marionette. Well, this wasn’t my idea, I had never even seen Howdy Doody, and I felt foolish walking along pretending my arms were dangling from strings. Obviously I was an image from my parents’ childhood which meant that I was also an image from the judges’ childhoods and that must explain why I won second place. I went up to accept my ribbon with some residual embarrassment but mostly being impressed that my mom knew what she was doing after all."
--JEF

Frank

Horror Film

Well, if you put it that way...

...I suppose it does sound fairly horrible.

BEAUTY: Art--For Halloween

Even more art for Halloween...

Skull faces by Laurie J. Proud

The Death of Capitalism by Chang Park

Activation III by James Flames

Death and Life by Gustav Klimt

Leaf 6 by Lorenzo Duran

from "The Skeleton Dance," a 1929 "Silly Symphony" short by Disney

http://www.lauriejproud.com/
http://illoz.com/changpark/
http://www.jamesflames.com/
http://www.naturayarte.es/

Do you believe in ghosts?