Day 4679. A 79-Foot Labyrinth, Muybridge and Red Zen.

       

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A Crocheted 79-Foot Labyrinth 

by Ernesto Neto - Houston Museum

“SunForceOceanLife” (2021), 30 x 79 x 55 feet • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto (previously) is known for his enormous, fiber-based installations that plunge viewers into a multi-sensory landscape of organic elements: people are encouraged to walk through canals of stretched yarn and grasp the structural weavings, while spicy scents like turmeric and cumin are often diffused throughout the room.

Similarly immersive and imposing, Neto’s latest work at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is one of his largest to date. “SunForceOceanLife” is a hand-crocheted, walkable maze of yellow, orange, and green threads that stretch 79 feet across the gallery and spiral 12 feet in the air. The pliable installation centers around “fire, the vital energy that enables life on this planet,” the artist says, sharing that each polymer string utilized is burned at the end to further infuse the piece with sacred, meditative rituals. “I hope that the experience of this work will feel like a chant made in gratitude to the gigantic ball of fire we call the sun, a gesture of thanks for the energy, truth, and power that it shares with us as it touches our land, our oceans, and our life,” he writes.

Plastic balls also fill the pathway and shift underfoot, which forces those passing through the suspended structure to intentionally maintain their balance. Neto explains:

It directly engages the body as does a joyful dance or meditation, inviting us to relax, breathe, and uncouple our body from our conscious mind. The sensation of floating, the body cradled by the crocheted fruits of our labor, brings to mind a hammock: the quintessential indigenous invention that uplifts us and connects us to the wisdom and traditions of our ancestors.

“SunForceOceanLife” is on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston through September 26, 2021. You can see more of Neto’s interactive, site-specific projects at Galerie Max Hetzler. (via designboom)

I love reading, from a book. I got two new books today, which is just perfect since I Just finished ...

The Vera Wong series was sent to me by Rad Nana, and was a fun quick read, so much so that I slowed down near the end, limiting the 31 chapters to a few at a time. Side note: You may get hungry for Chinese food. Now my new books are totally different, a hard & a paperback.

Muybridge is by the famous cartoonist, Guy Delisle. a biography about Eadweard Muybridge, who made pictures move. It is a novel, but in cartoons and illustration, no words, sentences, paragraphs etc.

This book was highly recommended, with betrayal, intrigue, tragedy and said to become a classic. It has the advantage of possibly getting a Grandhunk or two to read. Breaks my heart that they don't read books.

Red Zen is a Japanese Murder Mystery that takes place in Kyoto. It is by Ash Warren who wrote the excellent The Way of Salt: Sumo and the Culture of Japan. 

 

  

 

A 5+ minute video, Gust of wind, here

 

  

 

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