Peter Chang Earrings
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HYBYCOZO
HYBYCOZO (Hyperspace Bypass Construction Zone) is a Los Angeles-based art collaborative founded by Serge Beaulieu and Yelena Filipchuk, inspired by Don Adam’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. This company will produce this summer’s show at the Missouri Botanical Gardens, Patterns in Nature: The Art of HYBYCOZO. This show opens in April, and includes night viewing, when the sculptures are lit up and really shine. A video at the end of this post shows this.
Last year we saw a similar artwork by a different artist that was amazing. It was displayed at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem. Basically, it was a single cube suspended in the middle of an empty room. A single light at the center of this cube casts light and shadows on all surfaces of the interior of this room.
“Deep Thought” is a direct nod to the Hitchhiker’s series. It appears as a large, ornate, glowing polyhedral. This pagoda-like structure is one of the centerpieces of this year’s HYBYCOZO show. It will take the form of a triambic icosahedron. A what?! A complex 3D shape made of 60 gold laser cut steel filigree triangle panels which will cast colorful light and shadows far and wide.
HYBYCOZO explores the wondrous connection between art, science, and nature through 21 intricately designed and interactive installations located throughout the Garden. The following video is a promo for HYBYCOZO that was created by the garden. It portrays what this show will look like at night, when it is all lit up.
Japanese Garden Cherry Blossoms
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Tricoastal
We have been bouncing around this month, West Coast, East Coast, Left Coast, Right Coast. Occasionally, we would hit home, here in the Midwest. That is where we are now. I hope that we can stay here for a while, but that is still TBD. On our dance card for this summer is the Third Coast. We are finalizing our plans for that trip. Like so much flotsam and jetsam, who knows where we will wash up or when. I flow with the tides and go when the sea commands.
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The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit
This large painting greets viewers as they enter the second floor of the American wing at the Boston Museum of Fine Art. It is an important work by a major American artist, who is well represented at this museum. Before I saw it, I heard it described by a guide as a must see and one their personal favorites.
The Boit family were friends of Sargent and in later years the daughters donate this work to the Boston art museum. They also gave the two vases that can be seen flanking the painting and within it. The painting’s unusual arrangement of the girls has led wags to claim that the painting offers a portrait of vases and a still life of the girls. Over time though analysis has transitioned from dismissal of the portrait as portraying nothing more than happy playtime to deeper themes.
One critic supposed that instead of four girls, Sargent portrayed one girl at four different ages. The four daughters were Florence (14 years old), Jane (12), Mary Louisa (8) and Julia (4). Art historians have interpreted the painting as revealing Sargent’s psychosexual thoughts. In the succeeding years, none of the girls would marry, and the two oldest suffered emotional disturbances in maturity. Was it Sargent or someone closer to home, after Epstein don’t we all have to deal with these kinds of fears now?
I like to try to imagine the painting process. Because of the painting’s large size, I imagine that it was created insitu. Moving it would have been difficult. Sargent would come every day and the girls would pose. The perfect combination of tedium and excitement. After each session the four girls would race to see how they looked. I wonder as their appearances developed on canvas how that affected their perception of themselves in real life.