Rupert Ackroyd

Rupert Ackroyd

Snowman, Innovations, 2005

Moon Under Water 2009
Installation View at MCA (Malta Contemporary Art)

lighting

KEITH SONNIER

On 7 January 2010, Mary Boone Gallery will open at its Fifth Avenue location an
exhibition of sculptural neon works by KEITH SONNIER.
Referencing Sonnier’s investigations at the beginning of his career(the late 1960s) where
he employed cloth, neon light, screening, and visible electrical circuitry, the “Oldowan
Series” is a group of wall works that combine sexually charged and psychologically loaded
fabrics like gauze and satin with steel armatures. Enduring natural materials such as
wood and stone play off of the evanescent quality of neon light.
Oldowan is a term applied to the earliest manufactured stone tools in Africa, first used by
George Leakey to describe finds at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. The titles of individual
works in Sonnier’s series – Omo, Faya, Fora, Tulu – come from the designations of
various Paleolithic riverbed sites.

taken from press release here.

mary boone gallery.

lamps
for
the
weekend.









































































lamps.

1. Moloch Floor Lamp, Gaetano Pesce , 1971
2. re-use lighting, san francisco, here..
3. unknown fantastic globes!
4. osten kristiansson
5. john dickinson, african table lamps, 1980

Lamps:
Ron Gilad for Designfenzider

see more images here.

point of departure.

(james turrell)

you have been here sometime
has gone into the light (for awhile) to recharge.
(return date: undetermined..)


beginning new project...


feel free to contact me,
with correspondence at
mrechopark@yahoo.com



all the best,
david

"cross over children,
cross over children.
all are welcome
go into the light.
there is peace and serenity in the light."

"The astral plane, also called the astral world,
is a plane of existence postulated by classical, medieval,
oriental and esoteric philosophies and mystery religions.
It is the world of the planetary spheres, crossed by the soul in its astral body
on the way to being born and after death,
and generally said to be populated by angels, spirits or other immaterial beings.
In the late 19th and early 20th century the term
was popularised by Theosophy and neo-Rosicrucianism."

"The idea of astral travel is rooted in common worldwide religious accounts of the afterlife in which the consciousness' or soul's journey or "ascent" is described in such terms as "an...out-of body experience, wherein the spiritual traveler leaves the physical body and travels in his/her subtle body (or dream body or astral body) into ‘higher’ realms." It is therefore associated with near death experiences and is also frequently reported as spontaneously experienced in association with sleep and dreams, illness, surgical operations, drug experiences and forms of meditation. It is also sometimes cultivated for its own sake or may be believed to be a faculty derived from or necessary to some forms of spiritual practice.

It may involve "travel to higher realms" called astral planes but is commonly used of any sensation of being "out of the body" in the everyday world, even seeing ones body from outside or above. It may be reported in the form of an apparitional experience, a supposed encounter with a doppelganger, some living person also seen somewhere else at the same time."

the participants.
(point of departure)

1. close encounters remix, rozza 89
2. mariah robertson
3. ivan navarro
4. john mccracken
5. john foxx "he's a liquid"
6. andrei molodkin
7. alfred jaar
8. john foxx, metamatic

orange circles.
1. mc and co lighting
2. anselm reye. (that lamp shade gives me goosebumps!)

lit up.

1. dylan reece, here
2. alan vega, cadillac christ, from "music is a better noise" at ps.1. here..

Question of Faith....

"Dont need a mountain for a wall

See the big old moon spin around the world
Somehow it makes me feel so small"

-Lighthouse Family
(thanks g!)

(in a green mood. sculptural lamps. inspired by a friend....)


images....
1. lapo binazzi
2. matali crasset, "Lampe greenlight" floor light, 2004

"Transition is always a relief. Destination means death to me.
If I could figure out a way to remain forever in transition,
in the disconnected and unfamiliar,
I could remain in a state of perpetual freedom."
— David Wojnarowicz ,
Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

the disconnected and unfamiliar. void (light)
illumination from the earth. above and below. transition.

1. ian pedigo, read more here.
2. andre cazenave, 1970, two images, fiberglass lamps... wright auctions here.
3. fernando and humberto campana brother