Miles Neidinger has a recent piece that is just magnificent. it is entirely made up of straws and ropes. the piece is called "the anatomy of the palace of wisdom" the say "it comes close to showing us, the place of wisdom, glimpsed in the William blake poem. "the marriage of heaven and hell" which Neidinger references. "the road of excess leads to the place of wisdom. this quote is verry interesting and has so much meaning to it. basically the quote means, once you consume an excess amount of something (like for me it would be ammunition for guns) i will be in a place of wisdom and relize i could of done something else.
i am a huge gun nut and love getting ammo. so i was just at a gun show at the topeka gun show. and i bought (with help of my parents) 500 rounds of ammo. at the time i thought it was great. i saved about $60 and it came with a container. but once i got home i relized that i cant use the ammo, because my shooting range that i go to only allows brass cased ammo. and the 500 rounds i bout was steel cased. so at the very end i have to go shoot that ammo somewhere else and i know not to buy that kind anymore.
thats incredible how cool that looks, good job on describing the quotes that really capture his artwork.
ReplyDeleteInteresting example I have my own kind of consumption too
ReplyDeletethat is really cool andrew! I like how you related it back to yourself, it made it easier to understand and also gave me insight into you life. good job!
ReplyDeleteI like how you relate the sculpture to the marriage between heaven and hell. I thought it was a great description. nice job bro:)
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