Saturday + Sunday
Because of my slowly healing throat I spent most of Saturday and Sunday indoors, relaxing, resting, showering and what have you.
I will update you all on a project I am working on right now for my class.
We have to do a group oral presentation on one piece of contemporary art. Lucky for me, my group only consists of one other person, and we seem to be working well together, so yay!
The piece we are doing a presentation on is called "Film Star" by John Latham.
Latham worked a lot with books and the destruction of books, which I find truly fascinating since my minor concentrates on the preservation of books and the conservation of the form of bookbinding. Although I don't appreciate (in entirety) his destruction of the book form, I understand his motives, and appreciate his message.
The piece was originally used for a film, it's sort of like a stop-motion style film where the different colors of the pages are turned and then a shot is taken, so it looks as if the pages are automatically changing. I really wish that I could share the film with you, but it is a heavily guarded work of art (you can rent it to show in your gallery for £50 or something like that). Thankfully there is a lot written about the piece and the artist, so we aren't having too difficult of a time putting together our presentation.
