Watchtower in orbit
Watching over Metropolis
One Beacon Court, 58th Street, Midtown East
September 10th, 2016
And then there were fireworks
Courtesy of some festival or other, in Hoboken NJ across the river from the Whitney.
September 10th, 2016
Setting the record straight
I’m NASTY
Dedicated to all my fellow nasty women & friends, on this 21st day of January 2017.
Love,
Lia
Message from New York
Till we drop.
Except when we play.
Then back to work.
PS: We don’t smoke.
January 18th, 2017
Sad…!
January 20th, 2017 – Inauguration day.
The start of four long years. Four years too long.
Saturated
One of The City’s many facets – vibrant, almost technicolor, always dramatic. No color-correction at all, I actually had to tone it down a bit, to make seem more ”real”.
8:10pm
1st Ave & 58th str.
September 3rd, 2016
Rain of Light
My title, not the artist’s. The artist left it untitled so I thought, what if I call it ”Rain of Light”, isn’t it more fitting? Presumptuous may be, but it was the first thing that came to mind when I saw it illuminating the stairwell, making it an integral part of the museum rather than a solely utilitarian feature. I instantly thanked myself for choosing to take the stairs instead of the lift.
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
”Untitled” (America), 1994
Twelve light strings, each with forty-two 15-watt lightbulbs and rubber sockets, at the stairwell of The Whitney Museum of American aRt.
September 10th, 2016
Lengthy Symmetry
There can be balance between extremes. It’s just a matter of finding the right proportions.
East 57th St.
September 11th, 2016
Melting away Standing
Larger than Life.
Day in Night out.
Recast and lit anew – the cycle of Life.
Caption accompanying Standing Julian:
Standing Julian is a portrait of Urs Fischer’s friend and fellow artist Julian Schnabel. The massive sculpture is also a wax candle: lit every morning and extinguished each night, Standing Julian will slowly melt over the course of the exhibition. Although this candle will eventually burn down and be discarded – a process that evokes the inevitable transience of life – the sculpture can also be recast and lit anew. As Fischer explained, his waxworks allow ”materials and images take on their own life.”
That was Julian, captured in September. Is there anything left of him today, I wonder. Is he still turning into a puddle of soft wax? Has a new Julian taken his place?
Would I know if nobody told me?
Standing Julian, 2015
Wax, pigment, steel and wicks
Urs Fischer
September 10th, 2016 at The Whitney Museum of American aRt
The Humble Fabulist 