2024 52 Card Project: Week 7: Walker
Feb. 22nd, 2024 02:48 pmI'm posting this a day early because, you know, there is this wedding distracting me this weekend.
I went for an exploratory expedition with![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
minnehaha last week: we spent a pleasant afternoon meandering through the galleries of the Walker Art Museum. I haven't been there in years.
We spent most of our time looking at an exhibit entitled "Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s–1980s." Quite absorbing but also rather sad. It was astounding the extent that artists would go to in an attempt to make art while evading the official censors. Sometimes they resorted to using their own bodies as canvases within a limited time frame, i.e., they would spread the word among their friends 'come to this street at this hour and enter this basement and after you see what I have written on my body, I will take a shower. DON'T TELL ANYONE WHO WILL TELL THE POLICE.'
For much of this ephemeral art there are only photographs and videos to see.
We stopped for a lovely midafternoon too-late-for-lunch-too-early-for-dinner meal at the restaurant in the building. I wanted to incorporate the beautiful cocktail I ordered into the collage, but I thought the photo was pretty enough to stand on its own.
I had a strong artistic sense of this card as I was taking photographs for it. Most of the photos I harvested had definite horizontal energy. Unfortunately, I've put it together in a bit of a hurry because I have a lot to do this weekend, and I'm not feeling patient enough to tinker with it endlessly. I've layered various works of art from the exhibit, and placed over them a semi-transparent shot of the view down a long corridor:
Description: layered images of an art exhibit at the Walker Art Museum, with semi-transparent images of various works of art, overlaid by the word 'Walker.' Upper right corner are the words 'Make Sense (of this)' Lower right corner: a black poodle.
Walker
Click here to see the 2024 52 Card Project gallery.
Click here to see the 2023 52 Card Project gallery.
Click here to see the 2022 52 Card Project gallery.
Click here to see the 2021 52 Card Project gallery.
I went for an exploratory expedition with
minnehaha last week: we spent a pleasant afternoon meandering through the galleries of the Walker Art Museum. I haven't been there in years. We spent most of our time looking at an exhibit entitled "Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s–1980s." Quite absorbing but also rather sad. It was astounding the extent that artists would go to in an attempt to make art while evading the official censors. Sometimes they resorted to using their own bodies as canvases within a limited time frame, i.e., they would spread the word among their friends 'come to this street at this hour and enter this basement and after you see what I have written on my body, I will take a shower. DON'T TELL ANYONE WHO WILL TELL THE POLICE.'
For much of this ephemeral art there are only photographs and videos to see.
We stopped for a lovely midafternoon too-late-for-lunch-too-early-for-dinner meal at the restaurant in the building. I wanted to incorporate the beautiful cocktail I ordered into the collage, but I thought the photo was pretty enough to stand on its own.
I had a strong artistic sense of this card as I was taking photographs for it. Most of the photos I harvested had definite horizontal energy. Unfortunately, I've put it together in a bit of a hurry because I have a lot to do this weekend, and I'm not feeling patient enough to tinker with it endlessly. I've layered various works of art from the exhibit, and placed over them a semi-transparent shot of the view down a long corridor:
Description: layered images of an art exhibit at the Walker Art Museum, with semi-transparent images of various works of art, overlaid by the word 'Walker.' Upper right corner are the words 'Make Sense (of this)' Lower right corner: a black poodle.
Click here to see the 2024 52 Card Project gallery.
Click here to see the 2023 52 Card Project gallery.
Click here to see the 2022 52 Card Project gallery.
Click here to see the 2021 52 Card Project gallery.