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Brief as Water Falling, 2006

  • Posted on August 27, 2011 at 12:50 pm

Brief as Water Falling is a meditation on the transient, the ephemeral, all that we cannot grasp. The work began with a video Id taken on a hot summers day eighteen years ago when my then husband was spraying our three sons with water. The boys ran into the house and emerged with paper bags on their heads and for eighteen seconds they ducked and squealed, pulled the bags on and off. Those brief seconds form the basis for sixty-seven drawings and a short film. For brief as water falling will be death, and brief as flower falling or a leaf, brief as the taking and the giving, breath Conrad Aiken While on the surface, such a delightful scene is charming and nostalgic, these captured images have been slowed to jerk and be slightly off kilter, suggesting something more complex. By stopping movements and gestures, a more ambiguous meaning emerges, alluding to uncertainties that can only be imagined. The water spray, mostly invisible and present through sound, suggests a force relentlessly surrounding us. Or perhaps the water is time itself, moving ceaselessly on. The boys hiding in the bags with their bare legs and bodies exposed as if they were in fact protected become a metaphor for how illusory it is to hide, how few our defenses. There is an oblique reference to hoods hiding faces throughout history from Druids to dunces, the Klu Klux Klan and Abu Graib. Disguise, anonymity, abuse: ideas diametrically opposed to the idea of children playing. We hold these two opposites …

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  • Posted on August 2, 2011 at 8:11 pm

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Quirky Brief #9: Let’s Create The Perfect Farmers Market Bag

  • Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:09 pm

For this week’s Quirky Brief, we’re partnering with Darya Pino, a San Francisco-based scientist, foodie, and writer. Her popular blog, Summer Tomato, offers tips and advice on healthy eating, especially for foodies in urban areas. When we first met Darya, she told us all about a food shopping problem that drives her crazy. Whenever she shops at her local farmer’s market, she inevitably comes home to bruised produce. She’s taken to bringing two separate bags — a big one for heavy stuff and a smaller one for delicate fruits and veggies — along with a Tupperware set for isolating vulnerable produce and a handful of biodegradable plastic bags for separating purchases. Four different products, just to go shopping? There’s gotta be a better way to port produce. Quirky community and Summer Tomato readers, let’s unite to create the perfect farmer’s market bag. We flew out to San Francisco to check out the problem firsthand, and we captured the crux of it in the video. Watch it, and once inspiration strikes, head to the Invent tab on Quirky.com to submit your idea for free!

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