For this installation/tableau I was interested in continuing my thinking on nostalgia, but this time creating more of emotional contrast in the juxtaposition of elements. I found these wonderful Darth Vader cow skull robot things (circa 1980?) at a flea market–cracked, chipped, and basically garbage. I still can’t figure out what they are or what they were [...]
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there, there: an installation (part 2)
Posted in inspirations, installations, photos, spring 10, thoughts & feelings, tagged antfarm, art, artist, Carol Mavor, collecting, death, dinette set, forgetting, grief, hoarding, installation, kitchen table, memory, Milan Kundera, nostalgia, photograph, raleigh, sentimentality on February 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today I continued to clean things and transport them to Antfarm. I see the mailman just delivered my second slide projector, which is exciting! Now if only that cookie jar would show up… A couple quotes about old things and remembering: Forgetting… is the great private problem of man; death as the loss of self. But [...]
