Time Well Spent

My coworker and sharer of clever things, Gauri, spent the last 3 [ as in three ] weeks traveling/visiting family in India.

These all are some snippets of her time in Delhi & Goa.

I am absolutely not jealous.

Ok, I am jealous.

Thanks for sharing these amazing images, buddy. Now arent you glad to be back behind a steel desk with two massive monitor screens beaming that sweet sweet blue-white light into your face?

Of course you are.

- jelsen

Vaginas, Vortexes, & Much Much More

Sculptor, artist, maker of beautifully 'simple' epic forms Anish Kapoor has my complete attention.

Back in 2006 he had his Sky Mirror sculpture at Rockerfeller Center and i remember being sucked into what? huh? the reflection of the sky? YEP.

That structure engaged me so mysteriously. Though its the only Kapoor piece i've personally experienced, researching his body of work confirms 'mystery' to be part of his mode of operation.

Im also thrown by how he's able to dominate spaces without it actually coming off as so.

"I’m thinking about the mythical wonders of the world, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the Tower of Babel. It’s as if the collective will comes up with something that has resonance on an individual level and so becomes mythic. I can claim to take that as a model for a way of thinking. Art can do it, and I’m going to have a damn good go. I want to occupy the territory, but the territory is an idea and a way of thinking as much as a context that generates objects."

Anish's very first public piece in the United States is Cloud Gate at Millennium Park in Chicago. I've got to see up close:

Anish Kapoor's site > H E R E <

And check out his wiki > H E R E <

- jelsen