The Wasp Factory
Le jardin dormait encore. Je l'ai surpris, nourrice. Je l'ai vu sans qu'il s'en doute. C'est beau un jardin qui ne pense pas encore aux hommes.
“And so it was I entered the broken world
To trace the visionary company of love, its voice
An instant in the wind (I know not whither hurled)
But not for long to hold each desperate choice.”
— “The Broken Tower” by Hart Crane
Half of the Whole is a project by Siri Kaur She started the project in 2007, traveling to Kitt Peak in Arizona to photograph outer space. With the help of planetary scientists, she captured pictures of distant galaxies on a digital sensor attached to a Meade solar telescope.
“Miniature topographies inside 200-gallon fish tanks, based on traditional landscape paintings. Keever fills the tanks with water once he’s sculpted and placed the miniatures, and colored lights and pigments create dense, atmospheric environments. He views his works as an evolution of the landscape tradition and deliberately acknowledges the conceptual artifice.”
(Source: genie-in-the-bottle, via daughteroftheoak)
