Visible - Invisible V

Art does not reproduce the visible, it makes visible

Paul Klee


Agnes Martin, Untitled #9, 2003
(more Agnes Martin)

Joseph Cornell - Rorschach Drawings

The world is a harmless enigma made terrible by our own mad attempt
to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth

Umberto Eco



"They Say the Owl is a Baker's Daughter" Ophelia, 1971

Black & White - Doppelganger

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do
is to suppose that they are like himself

John Steinbeck



Diane Arbus, Identical Twins, Roselle, N.J. 1967

Visible - Invisible IV

Profound boredom, drifting here and there in the abysses of our existence like a muffling fog, removes all things and men and oneself along with it into a remarkable indifference. This boredom reveals being as a whole.

Martin Heidegger, What is Metaphysics? 1929



Ed Ruscha, Your Space #1, 2006

Visible - Invisible III

The world is so complicated, tangled, and overloaded that to see into it
with any clarity you must prune and prune.

Italo Calvino (from: If on a Winter's Night A Traveller)



Luke Elwes, Refugia 2006 (oil on linen)

Michael Schnabel - Cages

A Cage went in search for a bird.

Franz Kafka, Collected Aphorisms


Photographic series of empty zoo cages (2000-2002)
by german photographer Michael Schnabel

Visible - Invisible II

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight
of the shore for a very long time.

Andre Gide



Miya Ando

Visible - Invisible I

Looking Behind The Horizon

Sonja Braas, Forces # 02, 2002

Land Artist Jim Denevan on the Ice

In Pursuit of the Impermanent

I've posted about Jim Denevan and his "Sand" Art in May (see here). Today I found out that in this spring he also "created a large scale artwork on the frozen surface of Lake Baikal, Siberia. The spiral of circles, along a fibonacci curve, grow from an origin of 18" to several miles in diameter."

Sand Art by Jim Denevan