But here is one of the pieces I really like - a 'landscape'
Ocean Park 79 - oil on canvas, 1979, 236.2 x205.7 cm, Philadelphia Museum of Art
However all of the above is really preamble because while reading the article I came across this sentence:
Years later, he said: "One thing I know has influenced me a lot is looking at landscape from the air...Of course, the earth's skin itself had 'presence' - I mean it was all like a flat design - and everything was usually in the form of an irregular grid."
This really hit because only last night I wrote here of the ' skin of the earth' and how often when flying in by plane I have marvelled at the skin -thinness of the land where it meets the sea and forms the inevitable Edge.
So the skin is the locus of my thought - how thin it is, though.
One other thing I forgot to do last night was to thank Noelle for pointing me to this amazing book:
I was lucky enough to be paid for a couple of prints at the time and regarding this as fate (which of course I do not believe in) I put the money to the book. I can just say for anyone remotely interested in photography and art this is a must - here is an image from it:
Laila Muraywid (b. 1965. Damascus) - In the garden of dreams - hand painted gelatin silver print (no date ) 41 x 43 cm -
This together with the previously mentioned Photography Book are very valuable.
There is one other book worth mentioning which is a good deal more theoretical but deeply fascinating:
Micael Fried - Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before, 2008 New Haven, CONN:Yale University Press
Thgis one is in the library in LSAD.
Her is a large photo - lamdaprint, I think, from Abigail O'Brien's exhibition - Bread - at LCGA:
Abigail O'Brien - Paula Rego
