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There's quite an amazing installation on display at Mass MoCA in North Adams, MA. Jenny Holzer's Projections casts poems by Nobel laureate Wisława Szymborska across a darkened room the length of a football field. Walking through these projected words is at first like half-listening: I caught fragments of words but could not put them together, dimly aware of trees, pens and paper, bodies and discomfort. When I stood at the end of the hall, I could read each word clearly as it appeared. The lines arrived more slowly than the time it took to read them, which allowed each line to fully register: "Nothing has changed. / The body is a reservoir of pain ..." Reading a few poems in this unconventional way is one thing_but that is only part of the exhibit… Continue reading… 3 comments

The Spencer Finch exhibit, "What Time Is It On The Sun" now showing at the MASS MoCA museum in North Adams, MA is by far the most poetic and inspiring show I have seen in a long time, ever perhaps. It is a very "human" show. I say "human" and yet none of the pieces depict human beings as the subjects. Instead, Finch puts the observer at the center of the experience in which each piece explores the idea of human perception by attempting to recreate, through scientific methods, how people remember, experience, and represent the visual and sensory phenomenon that occur in everyday experience. Using a variety of media, Finch manipulates light, temperature, air velocity, and color to create art which literally replicates life… Continue reading… 2 comments