Elemental [art]
Jan. 2nd, 2024 12:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rebeccmeisterSome things I want to remember, from visiting the Nordic Museum on Friday:
I probably don't need to go back and visit the Nordic Museum again for a while. Sure, I could dip in to have something at the cafe, and to peruse the gift shop, but most of the museum content is static. It was also quite interesting to visit it after having gone to the National Museum of Iceland in August. Nordic cultures on my mind. If anything, Nordic cultures are my heritage, anyway, so I don't have to get concerned about cultural appropriation.
Forever a sucker for linzer cookies, which I should probably learn to make one of these days:
I accidentally trolled myself, out in front of the museum:
This artist got to be exceedingly popular. I think I read something about him in the NYT? About how he usually places his sculptures in natural spaces, but this has the downside that they attract throngs of visitors who don't/can't always respect the natural spaces where the sculptures reside. This one certainly had its own crowd.
Personally I think a sculpture of this variety, placed under a bridge or freeway overpass in Albany, constructed from the logs that float down the river, would be fantastic in about 12 different ways. I wonder if I can find a local artist who has the skills and interest to make it happen. There are almost certainly eligible artists and woodworkers in the region, and then we don't have to try and entice in some fancy outsider guy.
But looking at this one, I mostly just noted so much pallet wood, so many nail heads.
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Looking at artifacts in the museum, my attention mostly focused on the materials used to create the artifacts: birchbark bowls used and carried by the Sami. Wool, of course. Icelandic sneakers made of fish leather and rubber - the goal was 100% renewable materials. Wooden objects, carved and painted.
Inspiration for painting the chairs I plan to finish refinishing in 2024? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose-painting#History_in_Sweden
So here are traditional methods to make things in support of Scandinavian lifestyles, many of which did translate well to life in the Pacific Northwest for the immigrants.
I probably don't need to go back and visit the Nordic Museum again for a while. Sure, I could dip in to have something at the cafe, and to peruse the gift shop, but most of the museum content is static. It was also quite interesting to visit it after having gone to the National Museum of Iceland in August. Nordic cultures on my mind. If anything, Nordic cultures are my heritage, anyway, so I don't have to get concerned about cultural appropriation.
Forever a sucker for linzer cookies, which I should probably learn to make one of these days:
I accidentally trolled myself, out in front of the museum:
This artist got to be exceedingly popular. I think I read something about him in the NYT? About how he usually places his sculptures in natural spaces, but this has the downside that they attract throngs of visitors who don't/can't always respect the natural spaces where the sculptures reside. This one certainly had its own crowd.
Personally I think a sculpture of this variety, placed under a bridge or freeway overpass in Albany, constructed from the logs that float down the river, would be fantastic in about 12 different ways. I wonder if I can find a local artist who has the skills and interest to make it happen. There are almost certainly eligible artists and woodworkers in the region, and then we don't have to try and entice in some fancy outsider guy.
But looking at this one, I mostly just noted so much pallet wood, so many nail heads.
-
Looking at artifacts in the museum, my attention mostly focused on the materials used to create the artifacts: birchbark bowls used and carried by the Sami. Wool, of course. Icelandic sneakers made of fish leather and rubber - the goal was 100% renewable materials. Wooden objects, carved and painted.
Inspiration for painting the chairs I plan to finish refinishing in 2024? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose-painting#History_in_Sweden
So here are traditional methods to make things in support of Scandinavian lifestyles, many of which did translate well to life in the Pacific Northwest for the immigrants.
