To my great surprise, I frequently meet people in Indianapolis who ask where the Indianapolis Museum of Art is. I have always been a museophile, so it shocks me when people say they haven’t been to the art museum in their own home town. Wait, what else do you do on weekends?
A few weeks ago, when the weather was not as scorching as it’s predicted to be this week, I wandered outside for a walk around the lake with my camera after lunch. I had been out before earlier in the spring and created a great panorama from a set of photos that I had taken, but the sky was a bit overcast and the overall mood was somewhat gloomy.
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Dear IMA Team and Readers of the Blog,
We’ve been wanting to write a short note to you all ever since the evening of the IMA’s 125th Anniversary Gala. What a night! A great show of energy and commitment to the museum, a rare chance to spend time with a brand new, permanent work from a major living artist and really just a great party.
Type A piece up for auction at the 125th Gala
Just in time for the groundbreaking of the Art and Nature Park and the third Team Building session at IMA, Type A give us a peek into their on-going discussion…
Dear Count Blogula,
I’m still trying to figure out what we were trying to say last time. Something about the Invisible Man and mirrors. Good reading. I figure we should keep going with this.
More new things percolating since we last wrote. At this point we are reevaluating what the sculpture will look like and what it means within the larger context of the project as a whole. The original conception for the piece, a 40ish-foot climbing tower suspended about 12 feet of the ground, has been expanded to include handholds that are cast from our team members’ grips, and indeed the decision to suspend or not suspend the tower has come into question.
We are back to having it in the ground and accessible to those who want to touch and climb it, and then we’re back again to the suspended version with all its visual impact and conceptual tickle. We will be discussing what all this means with the Team and we hope this could influence the direction the sculpture takes. In the end, we might have the sculpture suspended for one year and then renew the piece and give it new meaning by lowering it onto the ground for another year. So the question remains: what does it mean to build the tower and suspend it and what does it mean for it to rest on the ground?
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That sums it up. You can always tell how stressed out I am by how messy my desk is. To the untrained eye my desk might look pretty neat. But only I know that I have stuffed papers that ought to be filed into that little tray and I have five new projects with documents waiting for a file folder. (So maybe I am a little crazy with the organization…I think it keeps us all together in the long run.)
Check out this photo on Flickr to see a diagram of my crazy.
This is a super-busy time for the Nugget Factory and it just sort of happened. For a couple of days last week, Daniel was out of the office with Dan shooting some video in San Francisco for the upcoming show, Power and Glory: Court Arts of China’s Ming Dynasty. I found myself sitting at my desk, working at a normal pace…and bored out of my mind. Two days later, with the full factory back in action, things sort of erupted, with new tasks flying in at every angle. I guess I prefer it that way…Check out this selection of stuff we have coming soon: Read the rest of this entry »
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