In desperation, poetry, spirituality, art.

[rebeccmeister]

Here are three videos from art-installation pieces that I could sit and watch for hours, or days. The first one is difficult to find online because of how this artist handles his work, but it gives at least a tiny sense of what the installation is like to experience. I think the full video is closer to 10 minutes. I cannot fully describe what it does to me.

Storm Sequence, by Shaun Gladwell. (for some reason, the flash plugin crashes when I try to load this through YouTube, but I could get it to play through Facebook...not sure what's going on there with Australian-based videos)

Echo at Satsop, by Etsuko Ichikawa

boom. by Susie Lee

Comments

[bluepapercup]

Did you and I already talk about Echo at Satsop? I found it affecting and gorgeous.

I would love to sit down and watch Rivers and Tides with you.

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

Rivers and Tides is one of my favorite movies.

[rebeccmeister.livejournal.com]

I don't think we have.

I rode past the towers at Satsop on my Olympic Peninsula bike tour two summers ago.

From what I read about the installation version of Echo of Satsop, it was even more affecting and compelling - it involved a platform in front of the projection, where it was possible to FEEL the vibrations of the sounds in the film. I would have stayed there for hours.

It has been a few years since I've watched Rivers and Tides, but I liked it and found it peaceful. Aren't there a few artworks by Goldsworthy that are longer-lasting in your part of the world?

Oh man, and Winged Migration falls into the same category.

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

I like watching the combination of the skateboard and the waves.

[rebeccmeister.livejournal.com]

Yes, the full version is even more amazing in that regard. I've read descriptions of Shaun Gladwell's work as being referential to landscape paintings. Before I saw Storm Sequence, I never knew it was possible to dance with a skateboard in that manner. He has some work on BMX bikes as well.