Boxes

I like boxes and what they might represent. What they might contain both real and/or imagined.

Henry Coombes and Michael Stumpf from Wed at Noon

Coombes was born in London in 1977 and completed his BA at Glasgow School of Art in 2002. Since then he has had solo shows at Anna Helwing, LA, The Cooper Gallery, Dundee, and Suzie Q Project Space, Zurich. Group shows include Broadway 1602, New York, and The Zabludowicz Collection Project Space, London. Coombes was a recipient of the 2005 Scottish Arts Council/Scottish Screen Film award and his short film, ‘Laddy and the Lady’, was premiered at the Tramway, Glasgow in June 2006. It has since screened at film festivals in Oberhausen, Norway, Edinburgh, Stockholm and Nova Scotia. He represented Scotland at the Venice Biennale in 2007 and exhibited at the Hammer Museum, LA in June 2008. This year will see the screening of his fourth short film, 'The Bedfords', which was made possible through a Creative Scotland Award. The film debuts at Lights and Sie, Dallas, in April with the support of the Michael Goss Foundation and will be shown later in the year at Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow and the Zabludowicz Project Space, London.

Henry Coombes’s work is concerned with investigating the entrenched political, cultural and class connotation of the traditional media in which he works. Oil paint and watercolour are used to seduce the viewer into familiar and wholesome images, which on closer inspection reveal a dark and subversive subtext.

Men in boxes

ears or are they?

The all seeing ear

Think what I am going to look at is how to represent metamorphosis or things changed into other things - with ears/sound or silence being a focus of such
I have always liked Rodin - who hasn't with nymphs coming out of urns. Maybe I could do something with ears.
Couple this with respect being seen as a minute of silence for those who died in the wars i.e. commeration for example. I would quite like the sound track of an event to be separated from the action and/or out of sinc. For example if an ear can't hear because it is manmade and/or a facsimile then does a sound that it "hears" exist? I have also liked jack-in-the boxes so what about ears coming out of boxes to hear things...I don't know.
Back to the metamorphosis i like the fact that "human/beetles" being unable to move by the physical weight of the metamorphosis...not that the story might better be understood to be a dream! What if people were weighted down and couldn't get up...maybe by heavy rucksacks..weighed down unable to move by the noise that life exposes them to...maybe by the weight of silence?
Dunno.

More ear stuff and piercing info

Body piercing

Piercing methods Contemporary piercing procedures • Body piercing materials • Stretching • Play piercing • Pocketing • Surface piercing • Ear piercing gun

Ear piercings Tragus • Antitragus • Snug • Daith • Conch • Helix • Rook • Industrial

Facial and oral piercings Cheek • Eyebrow • Anti-eyebrow • Lip (Labret • Lip plate • Lip frenulum • Monroe • Medusa) • Nose (Bridge) • Tongue (Tongue frenulum) • Uvula

Body piercings Corset • Hand web • Hip • Madison • Navel • Nipple • Nape

Female genital piercings Christina • Clitoris • Clitoral hood • Triangle • Fourchette • Isabella • Labia • Nefertiti • Princess Albertina

Male genital piercings Ampallang • Apadravya • Hafada • Foreskin • Deep shaft • Dolphin • Dydoe • Frenum • Frenum ladder • Guiche • Lorum • Magic cross • Prince Albert • Reverse Prince Albert • Pubic • Transscrotal

Drawing with sound looks like this

How to show sound

Sounds of

Photo from google looking for echoesWant to look at sounds
Sounds of Silence is a place to start...

Hello darkness, my old friend,
Ive come to talk with you again,
Because a vision softly creeping,
Left its seeds while I was sleeping,
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence.
In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone,
neath the halo of a street lamp,
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence.

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more.
People talking without speaking,
People hearing without listening,
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dare
Disturb the sound of silence.

Fools said i, you do not know
Silence like a cancer grows.
Hear my words that I might teach you,
Take my arms that I might reach you.
But my words like silent raindrops fell,
And echoed
In the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon God they made.
And the sign flashed out its warning,
In the words that it was forming.
And the sign said, the words of the prophets

Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls.
And whisperd in the sounds of silence.

Ori Gersht saw pomegranate explode video fab

I simple loved seeing both exhibitions in Edinburgh by Ori Gersht but was very happy to see his vidoe in a small gallery in Berlin have a still captured from it so pictures or Ori
Ori Gersht : Biography
Education
1995 • MA in Photography, Royal College of Art, London
1992 • BA (Honors) in Photography, Film & Video, University of Westminster, London
Solo Exhibitions
2009 • Black Box: Ori Gersht, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
2008 • Blow Up, Time After Time & Pomegranate, Centro Andaluz De La Fotografia, Almeria, Spain.
• The Forest, Musée d’Art de Toulon, Toulon, France
• Time Folds, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California
• Ori Gersht & Jan Breughel the Elder, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland.
2007 • Time After Time, Mummery + Schnelle, London, UK
• The Forest, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut
• The Clearing, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

John Stezaker

Memories..that are relevant to me...and maybe you

While looking at the body as ... I have been, of course reading but very occasionslly watching TV and i have followed those forget what it is called..wish you were here or is it who do you think you are? Anyway the ones that trace peoples ancestry. I have always seen that as a kind of self centered pointless thing and mostly people are linked to important people or murders or both...anyway am seeing these in connection to the project and am possible interested in links. Must see my sister as she has been properly interested in this so if i get my act together who knows were the linke will take me?
Linked to this am trying when at galleries linke what i see to things i have seen if you see what i mean.
The photes might help.
Me maybe more than you but they are quite nice pictures paint a thousand words and all that jazz.
(I was reminded of John Stezaker when I was at Sorchas Dallas thing last night the Jimmy Roberts thing)

I like this cover from a book

Saw this through a window in a bookshop.

Some pictures of the Louvre.

Catherine de Medicis oversaw the extension and reputedly rooms with corridors so she could over ear what people were saying about her...walls have ears.

Looking at ears this is for kids...and me

Did you hear something? Maybe the sound you heard was as quiet as your cat licking her paws. Or maybe it was loud, like a siren going by. Sounds are everywhere, and you have two cool parts on your body that let you hear them all: your ears!

Your ears are in charge of collecting sounds, processing them, and sending sound signals to your brain. And that's not all — your ears also help you keep your balance. So if you bend over to pick up your cat, you won't fall down — or even worse — fall on your cat. Meow!

The ear is made up of three different sections: the outer ear, the middle ear, and the inner ear. These parts all work together so you can hear and process sounds.

The Outer Ear: Catch the Wave
The outer ear is called the pinna or auricle (say: or-ih-kul). This is the part of the ear that people can see. It's what people pierce to wear earrings and what your friend whispers into when it's time for a secret. The main job of the outer ear is to collect sounds, whether they're your friend's whispers or a barking dog.

The outer ear also includes the ear canal, where wax is produced. Earwax is that gunky stuff that protects the canal. Earwax contains chemicals that fight off infections that could hurt the skin inside the ear canal. It also collects dirt to help keep the ear canal clean. So earwax isn't just gross. It's gross and useful.

The Middle Ear: Good Vibrations
After sound waves enter the outer ear, they travel through the ear canal and make their way to the middle ear. The middle ear's main job is to take those sound waves and turn them into vibrations that are delivered to the inner ear. To do this, it needs the eardrum, which is a thin piece of skin stretched tight like a drum.

The eardrum separates the outer ear from the middle ear and the ossicles (say: ah-sih-kulz). What are ossicles? They are the three tiniest, most delicate bones in your body. They include:

the malleus (say: mah-lee-us), which is attached to the eardrum and means "hammer" in Latin
the incus (say: in-kus), which is attached to the malleus and means "anvil" in Latin
the stapes (say: stay-peez), the smallest bone in the body, which is attached to the incus and means "stirrup" in Latin
When sound waves reach the eardrum, they cause the eardrum to vibrate. When the eardrum vibrates, it moves the tiny ossicles — from the hammer to the anvil and then to the stirrup. These bones help sound move along on its journey into the inner ear.



The Inner Ear: Nerve Signals Start Here
Sound comes into the inner ear as vibrations and enters the cochlea (say: ko-klee-uh), a small, curled tube in the inner ear. The cochlea is filled with liquid, which is set into motion, like a wave, when the ossicles vibrate.

The cochlea is also lined with tiny cells covered in tiny hairs that are so small you would need a microscope to see them. They may be small, but they're awfully important. When sound reaches the cochlea, the vibrations (sound) cause the hairs on the cells to move, creating nerve signals that the brain understands as sound. The brain puts it together and hooray! You hear your favorite song on the radio.

Day or Night, Ears Keep You Upright
Ears do more than hear. They keep you balanced, too. In the inner ear, there are three small loops above the cochlea called semicircular canals. Like the cochlea, they are also filled with liquid and have thousands of microscopic hairs.

When you move your head, the liquid in the semicircular canals moves, too. The liquid moves the tiny hairs, which send a nerve message to your brain about the position of your head. In less than a second, your brain sends messages to the right muscles so that you keep your balance.

Sometimes the liquid in your semicircular canals keeps moving after you've stopped moving. To understand this, fill a cup halfway with water. Now move the cup around in a circle in front of you and then stop. Notice how the water keeps swishing around, even after the cup is still? That's what happens in your semicircular canals when you spin in circles or go on the Tilt-A-Whirl at the amusement park.

When you stop spinning or step off the ride, the fluid in your semicircular canals is still moving. The hairs inside the canals are sensing movement even though you're standing still. That's why you might feel dizzy — your brain is getting two different messages and is confused about the position of your head. Once the fluid in the semicircular canals stops moving, your brain gets the right message and you regain your balance.

Three Cheers for the Ears!
Your ears take care of you, so take care of them. Protect your hearing by wearing earplugs at loud music concerts and around noisy machinery, like in wood or metal shop at school. Keep the volume down on your stereo, especially if you're in the car or wearing headphones.

And one last thing — don't go poking around in your ears, even with cotton swabs. As you probably know, there's only one thing that's safe to put in your ear. Your elbow, of course.

Ha Ha very clever

These are tiriled as having the same picture as your neighbour blue, green, grey1, grey2

Peter Lynch
In the beginning the prints I first wanted to identify the unique, technical and conceptual position of printmaking, allowing the prints to exist in their own right (not illustrating my own painting practice).
Notions of flatness; the picture plane; the material of paper; gesture/finger mark being able to break the painted/printed surface and of reproduction all were considered in producing this series (suite) of prints.
With an assistant I was not restrained by technical practicalities. Therefore, more able to pursue the print in the spirit of playfulness, allowing experimentation to development and creating new corridors that ultimately affected the direction of the final result.
What I have created are prints that differentiate themselves from the paintings on canvas, developing their own unique position and ultimately pushing practice into richer territories.

CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
2000 – 01 Artist in Residence, Glasgow School of Art 1995 – 97 M.A. Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London1990 – 94 B.A. (Hons) Fine Art Painting, Glasgow School of Art1989 – 90 Foundation Studies in Art & Design, Blackburn College