radiation vibe.

Something's in the air.

Last week my artist friend Jimmy Miracle opened up his studio so I could see some of his recent work.  I actually gasped when I saw this installation:

[ click image to enlarge -- you'll be glad you did ]

This busted air conditioner, removed (resurrected even) from its usual curbside context, was suspended in the air with hundreds of strands of fluorescent thread emanating from within its bowels like fractured beams of light.  As I walked around the room, the neon beams appeared to converge and separate in space, and the piece, though static, buzzed with the illusion of movement. 

A few days later,  I saw these detail shots of an installation by Mark Garry over at pitch (one of my new favorite blogs, by the way): 

The bands of thread hover right at the cusp of the visible realm, threatening to dissolve into imperceptibility.  A spectral spectrum, they seem at once ethereal and eternal, like light refracted through a prism, surfacing for a moment before slipping, once again, beyond our sensory reach.   

Comments

[Saltina]

That's really beautiful.

[Erin]

awesome!