Wednesday, September 28, 2005

TURNED UPSIDE DOWN: ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE SAM DURANT EXAMINES NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY IN NEW SCULPTURE

Read the full article at the WalkerArt.org archives.


"As a boy growing up in Massachusetts, Sam Durant formed a lasting connection to the Midwest when he wrote a grade-school research paper on the American Indian Movement (founded in Minneapolis) and the 1973 conflict between Oglala Sioux activists and the FBI at South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation. Now a Los Angeles-based artist, he's returning to Native American themes through a new sculpture to be installed this month in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. The culmination of Durant's yearlong Walker artist residency, this Walker-commissioned work includes an upside-down tree cast in bronze, presented on a reflective steel plate and animated by a soundscape created with students from Four Directions and Heart of the Earth charter schools in Minneapolis and pow-wow participants from the Little Earth housing community. The piece is titled Walker Art Center Garden Project with Audio Narrative, Ojibwe, Lakota, and Dakota Truths and Myths from the Invisible Present, Past, and Future-plus Retrocession Monument: Direction through Indirection (Bronze Version)."

This piece was fabricated by Anurag Art in 2002/2003.

Cast-Bronze 'Stump' of a large tree; upside-down.

The text that was posted with this photo in WA Archives: "Sam Durant
WALKER ART CENTER GARDEN PROJECT WITH AUDIO NARRATIVE, OJIBWE, LAKOTA, AND DAKOTA TRUTHS AND MYTHS FROM THE INVISIBLE PRESENT, PAST, AND FUTURE-PLUS RETROCESSION MONUMENT: DIRECTION THROUGH INDIRECTION (BRONZE VERSION)
2003
Courtesy Blum and Poe, Los Angeles "


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Saturday, September 24, 2005

Today is F. Scott Fitzgerald's Birthday




Where I found this pic, a little travel article about St. Paul, MN; Birthplace of F.S.G.

..."F. Scott (for Francis Scott Key) Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul on Sept. 24, 1896. While his home at 481 Laurel Avenue in the Cathedral Hill District is now a designated National Literary Landmark..." -Charity Tahmaseb; for Wet Noodle Posse

So, Anurag must have cast this piece for the 1996 centennial of FSG birthday. Ah, yes... it's all coming back to me (well, not really). :Eric

A couple articles about the FSG centenary.


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Audio Foreword to "Case of the Rainbow Motel"

this is an audio post - click to play



Here's a link to the updated text of the Foreword, at The Rainbow Motel blog


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Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Tayoyateduta Mask in Minnehaha Falls


Anurag cast this piece from a HUUUGE! red cedar mask in 1995; for Ed Archie Noisecat and Minneapolis Parks. We camped out in the park (in tipis) to "guard the concrete" as it set and keep the raccoons off the stainless steel posts.


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Hawk / Human Transformation (1997/1998?) Eric Keast


A bronze casting with bismuth patina. Cast iron, steel and bronze base.

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