Artist Olafur Eliasson created this optimistic project about bringing light to people without electricity. I just watched a video interview here.
Another exciting discovery today was Berndnaut Smilde. He creates clouds inside of a room, and photographs serve to record the display. During an interview with Avant/Garde Diaries, he said about his own work:
"A lot of my work deals with the situation of duality: questioning inside and outside, temporality,
size and function of materials. I’m really interested in work that exits between reality and
representation in a way that it doesn’t really function in the end. So, as for the clouds, they’re just
there. They’re building up, at the same time they’re falling apart."
I find myself returning to this idea of the temporal, that nothing last forever and everything is in a constant state of change. I started overlapping images of clouds and water, things that fluid. It's not getting me where I want to be yet, but this idea of clouds...it intrigues me. You can watch them shift and change. Smilde's images are elegant and thought provoking and certainly had inspired me.
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