I am blown away by this posting and your last Jennifer. how I wish I could have been lying down there on the floor beside you. Or alone. Anyway. Just being there must have been amazing. Wish New York was around the corner. thanks for sharing this work - and the experience.
On your last post I thought "what a crazy looking loom..all the cables." The video with the movement and sound..wow! It's more like a puppet on strings but magical like the gift Councilor Drosselmeyer gives in The Nutcracker.
Got a chuckle from your seeing the cables as one big loom. That's kind of what it looked like too. Love seeing the curtain as a puppet! Hadn't thought of it that way, but it's so accurate. The puppet masters being whoever happened to be swinging at any given time.
My apologies about the sound. I should have suggested turning your volume down...or off. I was laying near one of the many speakers positioned throughout the hall so the monotone voice of the male reader can be heard. That plus the ambient noise of all the visitors to the exhibit...
Was it confusing? Yes and no. I found the drone of the male reader annoying. The female reader wasn't quite as bad. They were reading as instructed by Ann Hamilton - very low, very slow, mono tone...a drone in the background.
Truthfully though Velma, once I lay down to watch the dance of the curtain, it was so mesmerizing that everything else disappeared.
I finally got the video to work - and following your advice turned down the volume. I loved the way the sheets came to the fore and then receded - like waves. I can imagine being mesmerised by the movement...
Oh, that is just GREAT!!
ReplyDeleteIt is great...such a experience to just lay on the floor and watch and be transported somewhere else.
DeleteMesmerizing....like a giant sea creature...
ReplyDeleteYes. It was like laying on the ground and watching clouds pass...seeing new shapes all the time.
DeleteI am blown away by this posting and your last Jennifer. how I wish I could have been lying down there on the floor beside you. Or alone. Anyway. Just being there must have been amazing. Wish New York was around the corner. thanks for sharing this work - and the experience.
ReplyDeleteIt really is a shame that New York isn't just around the corner. What a time we'd have together! One day...
DeleteOn your last post I thought "what a crazy looking loom..all the cables." The video with the movement and sound..wow! It's more like a puppet on strings but magical like the gift Councilor Drosselmeyer gives in The Nutcracker.
ReplyDeleteGot a chuckle from your seeing the cables as one big loom. That's kind of what it looked like too. Love seeing the curtain as a puppet! Hadn't thought of it that way, but it's so accurate. The puppet masters being whoever happened to be swinging at any given time.
Deleteand i love, LOVE, this but don't love the sound quality. was it so confusing when you were there, or was it ok?
ReplyDeleteMy apologies about the sound. I should have suggested turning your volume down...or off. I was laying near one of the many speakers positioned throughout the hall so the monotone voice of the male reader can be heard. That plus the ambient noise of all the visitors to the exhibit...
DeleteWas it confusing? Yes and no. I found the drone of the male reader annoying. The female reader wasn't quite as bad. They were reading as instructed by Ann Hamilton - very low, very slow, mono tone...a drone in the background.
Truthfully though Velma, once I lay down to watch the dance of the curtain, it was so mesmerizing that everything else disappeared.
that's good! i think it would be easy to float away in that amazing space.
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DeleteI finally got the video to work - and following your advice turned down the volume. I loved the way the sheets came to the fore and then receded - like waves. I can imagine being mesmerised by the movement...
ReplyDeleteThe movement was very mesmerizing. Can you tell that at times the curtains comes low enough to cover me and the camera? That was very cool!
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