Month: July 2015

Susannah Martin

Susannah Martin, “Salon Dogs” and “The Day I Quit”

Susannah Martin is a German-based artist whose subject matter is timeless. Her realistically-rendered pastel drawings and oil paintings feature nude subjects who are exploring an idyllic landscape. As they wade through streams and pass by mountains, men, women, and children encounter different wild life.

“The history of the painted nude in landscape documents exactly this eternal longing. Setting aside for a moment, any erotic motivations, the nude has always also been a symbol for man in his purist form, his original form, his primordial form. Stripped of all social indicators; clothing, possessions , etc., he exists independent of identity in a time of pure being ( ein Zeit des Seins). Being is our eternal home. Nature does not possess an identity, it is. The nude in a natural setting has always been associated with our return to a time of pure being, a return home.” – Susannah Martin

Daniel Firman

Daniel Firman, “Nasutamanus”, Balancing Elephant, Vienna, 2012

Since 2008, French artist Daniel Firman has been exhibiting various versions of a sculptural installation piece named “Nasutamanus” all over the world. The artwork always depicts an elephant balancing on its trunk, sometimes out from the wall and at other times up from the floor. Most recently, the sculpture was on view at the Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna early in 2012.

The Annual Light Festival

The Annual Light Festival in Ghent,  Belgium

Ghent is the first city in Belgium to have a complete lighting plan designed for it. The Light Festival wants to bring the Light Plan in the spotlights and reveal a glimpse of the unique and hidden charm of the city. During the Light Festival you can embark on an exploratory voyage along the wintery track in the Ghent city centre and plunge in the most exciting light experiences.

A subtle game of beams that reflect on the water surface, unexpected projections on buildings, poetic shadows that play in the semidarkness between the hidden treasures of the city. About fifteen internationally renowned artists and light designers lead you during the darkest days of the year along a 6 km track. On several unique locations, both inside and outside, you can admire the work of the light artists.

Unconfirmed Dates for 2016: January 26-29. Confirm dates before traveling.

An Isolated Discovery

Photographer Unknown, (An Isolated Discovery)

The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the expansive force of the human intellect on one side, and the compression arising from traditionary faith and human interests on the other.

—John William Draper, History of the Conflict Between Religion and Scien

Silent Hill

Artist Unknown, Computer Graphics, Animation Gifs from the game “Silent Hill”

“Silent Hill” is a single-player survival horror game for the PlayStation developed by Team Silent of the Tokyo entertainment company Konami. The first installment of “Silent Hill” was released in North America and Europe in February of 1999 and one month later in Japan. Using a third=person view, it has real-time rendering of the 3D environments. The graphics were deliberately muddled with fog and darkness by the developers to lessen the limitations of the then current console hardware. The player character is an everyman instead of the then popular protaganists with combat training.