Is it al possible?
Questions:
If so many things are" common place" objects, how does one , as an artist, stray away from utilizing them within their works of art?
Pieter Hugo, In Tyrone Brand's Bedroom, 2007
"The imagery and strategies of still life - those arrangements of quotidian objects in a shallow domestic space - provided a particularly productive focus for exploring the way the distant affairs of the world might reach into the life of the individual. Still life is a threshold genre which focuses on what is on the table, that private/public surface which we hardly notice but on which so much of life is centered. And it is often, throughout its tradition, combined with landscape, through a window that looks out, or a shape that suggest a wider topography. Still life is, then, one of many ways the arts find to bring the distant near and to relate to the world and public events within the private life." (Bonnie Costello, in Planets on Tables: Poetry, Still Life, and the Turning World).
How can we know how much our understanding has been effected by our understanding of the objects within a certain frame?
Michael Drebert, Wood Stove, 2004. Image: helenpittgallery.org
ProstoRoz, Ljubljana
“The city must be a place of waste, for one wastes space and time: everything mustn’t be foreseen and functional… The most beautiful cities were those where festivals were not planned in advance, but there was a space where they could unfold.” (Henri Lefebvre)
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