I've been doing more research around liminal spaces and Marc Augé's non places. Here are some quotes and concepts I particularly liked from a video called "The Architecture of Liminal Space" by Stewart Hicks (published to Youtube on 5/3/21, Accessed 17/5/21) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL3bqQRLvsQ liminal spaces are "anonymous places where everyone feels lonely" no matter how many… Continue reading Liminal space and non-place
Category: Research
Transience and Echoes
This morning I came across Danae Ripley's work. It captures glimpses of modern life in its transient moments. This work especially stood out to me. Danae Ripley 505 x 410mm oil on canvas 2021 IMG source: https://danaeripley.wordpress.com/#jp-carousel-756 Her ghostly figures and gloomy palettes draw me in but the colours and atmosphere that they have keep… Continue reading Transience and Echoes
“Why Abstract Art?” by Kurt Varnedoe (2006)
Essay included in the Whitechapel Documents of contemporary art series book "ABSTRACT" edited by Maria Lind, published and printed by Whitechapel in collaboration with MIT university press, 2013. Here are the quotes and concepts I extracted from this text: "One of the valuable things about it [abstract art] does more feircly than a lot of… Continue reading “Why Abstract Art?” by Kurt Varnedoe (2006)
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