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posted by rob on December 16, 1997 at 13:19:26:
in reply to: baby's breath/my breath posted by Robert Labossiere on November 18, 1997 at 23:24:56:
second sight I've taken a bit more time with your site and find it, the second time around, both more and less successful (uh oh, the blush is off the rose:). If I may, I'll just babble on here a bit to give you a feel for my approach. The site is really well-organized and clear, which is a pleasure in itself. I noticed this time that there are two sides to each section, oppositional, like science and emotion, but also not really opposed to each other, more paired like two lungs. The model fetus pic really did it to me, first AND second time around. The fact that it is colourless (white) and seen in a white field, outside the womb, the baby on its head makes for a powerful image: tragic/comic/melancholic, I'm not sure how to describe it. Maybe its a stretch but it reminds me of some of my own work, plaster casts made by cupping plaster with the hands or in places around the body, a sample is the old version of my site, at http://www.interlog.com/~driftr/casts.html. Also some pottery I saw in a mag last year sometime, by a woman in England, white porcelain bowl forms that are so organic you would swear they are Obviously the art is in the project overall rather than in individual images or models? But then I had some difficulty interpretting the layered images. They are interesting but I find them very difficult to read in an aesthetic way, they are so literally the result of a rational process. For me, the text does not consistently tread the line between science and pleasure, not like the images do: There are places where I lost the rational sense of the sentence momentarily in favour of a more poetic interpretation: >breathing chambers over the pattern of surface ice< In other places the scientific description struck me very emotionally, like found objects sometimes do: >the bronchial passages must carry air to the furthest tips of the breathing chambers of the lung... That is the function of the breath.< The last panel/page surprised me a bit, not sure why the fetish should be dangerous, a very rationalist point of view isn't it? Of course magic thinking does not cure disease, but doesn't do a whole host of things that science for the most part ignors? |