Art is a form of nourishment (of consciousness, the spirit)
Susan Sontag on art, in illustrated diary excerpts, also available as a limited-edition print benefiting A Room of Her Own, a foundation supporting women artists and writers.
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Green Pedestrian Crossing created by Jody Xiong
The China Environmental Protection Foundation developed an outdoor campaign, displayed on the street, to creatively promote this message. They decided to leverage a busy pedestrian crossing; a place where both pedestrians and drivers meet.
The campaign involved laying a canvas 12.6 metres long by 7 metres wide on the ground, thus covering the pedestrian crossing with a large leafless tree. On either side of the road, beneath the traffic lights, were placed sponge cushions soaked in green, environmentally friendly, washable paint. As pedestrians walked towards the crossing, they stepped on the green sponge, thus leaving green foot imprints on the canvas of the tree. Each ‘green’ footprint on the canvas looked like leaves growing on a bare tree, which made people feel that by walking they could create a greener environment.
The ‘Green Pedestrian Crossing’ was carried out across 7 thoroughfares in Shanghai. The campaign was then extended to 132 roads across 15 cities in China, with a participation exceeding 3,920,000 people.
Watch their video below:
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in the IMA, in this room each speaker hanging was softly playing the voices of over a hundred different people talking about the person they loved most in the world, only so quiet that you had to sit very still to barely hear even one.
I want to make a pilgrimage to find this exhibit.
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Through Positive Eyes gives photographic voice to people living with HIV in major cities around the world. It is based on the belief that HIV-positive people should pick up their own cameras and make their own artistic statements. In doing so, they create powerful tools for combating stigma, which is one of the most formidable barriers in reducing the spread of AIDS today.
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Mary Temple - Northwest Corner, Southeast Light, 2002 - acrylic paint on floor/walls
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South Korean artist Seung Mo Park created a stunning series of giant portraits made with layers of wire mesh.
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A Wired Anatomy by David Oliveira.
This wireframe sculpture is wonderfully vivid and evokes a sketch like quality. The cardiac surgery is intricate but trimmed down with a minimalist approach, leaving your mind to fill in the rest.
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"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way - things I had no words for."
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