At a national memorial site this ritual leaving, beyond linking the living to the dead, defines the way individual experience and public event are conflated in memory. Offerings often reveal much about personal relationships to the dead as well as the significance of these deaths in a larger social context.
A Decorative Reading of Nature: Ming Fay
His sculpture’s decorative beauty and transcendent imagery re-works natural forms…see the full review in September’s magazine.
Serene Disturbance: A Conversation with Pedro Cabrita Reis
In a 1953 essay, Martin Heidegger wrote that in Old High German the verbs “to be” and “to build” originated from the same root. From this the philosopher concluded that one does not become a human being until one has settled down.
The Spokes of the Wheel: Sook Jin Jo
My interest in the Tao Te Ching—the great text said to have been spoken by the legendary Chinese sage Lao-tzu in the 6th century B.C.E.—began many years ago while I was living in Santa Barbara, California.
Rona Pondick’s Monsters of Fear and Desire
Her creations are monsters in the original sense of monstrum, an omen or dire warning….see the full review in September’s magazine.
Difficulty is Good: A Conversation with Dinos and Jake Chapman
Their works offer a cocktail of humor, horror, the sublime, and cultural critique…see the full review in July/August’s magazine.
