"Let every one of them mirror heaven."
Installation (Room with black dots, 17 glasses)
size variable
Sept, 2013
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A collection of glasses with drowned celebrities' names printed on it.
Served wine and water during the exhibition opening.
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We have dated waves, as well as clouds. On April 30 1991 - on that one day, 138000 people drowned in Bangladesh.
At dinner I mentioned to our daughter, who was then seven years old, that it was hard to imagine 138000 people drowning.
"No, it's easy." she said. "Lots and lots of dots, in blue water."
---For the Time Being, Annie Dillard
Cain killed Abel, and the blood cried out from the ground--a story so sad that even God took notice of it. Maybe it was not the sadness of the story, since worse things have happened every minute since that day, but its novelty that He found striking. In the newness of the world God was a young man, and grew indignant over the slightest things. In the newness of the world God had perhaps not Himself realized the ramifications of certain of his laws, for example, that shock will spend itself in waves; that our images will mimic every gesture, and that shattered they will multiply and mimic every gesture ten, a hundred, or a thousand times. Cain, the image of God, gave the simple earth of the field a voice and a sorrow, and God himself heard the voice, and grieved for the sorrow, so Cain was a creator, in the image of his creator…
Cain became his children and their children and theirs, through a thousand generations, and all of them transients, and wherever they went everyone remembered that there had been a second creation, that the earth ran with blood and sang with sorrow. And let God purge this wicked sadness away with a flood, and let the waters recede to pools and ponds and ditches, and let every one of them mirror heaven. Still, they taste a bit of blood and hair. One cannot cup one’s hand and drink for the rim of any lake without remembering that mothers have drowned in it, lifting their children toward the air…
---Housekeeping. Marilynne Robinson
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Installation (Room with black dots, 17 glasses)
size variable
Sept, 2013
///
A collection of glasses with drowned celebrities' names printed on it.
Served wine and water during the exhibition opening.
(
Numbers:
We have dated waves, as well as clouds. On April 30 1991 - on that one day, 138000 people drowned in Bangladesh.
At dinner I mentioned to our daughter, who was then seven years old, that it was hard to imagine 138000 people drowning.
"No, it's easy." she said. "Lots and lots of dots, in blue water."
---For the Time Being, Annie Dillard
Cain killed Abel, and the blood cried out from the ground--a story so sad that even God took notice of it. Maybe it was not the sadness of the story, since worse things have happened every minute since that day, but its novelty that He found striking. In the newness of the world God was a young man, and grew indignant over the slightest things. In the newness of the world God had perhaps not Himself realized the ramifications of certain of his laws, for example, that shock will spend itself in waves; that our images will mimic every gesture, and that shattered they will multiply and mimic every gesture ten, a hundred, or a thousand times. Cain, the image of God, gave the simple earth of the field a voice and a sorrow, and God himself heard the voice, and grieved for the sorrow, so Cain was a creator, in the image of his creator…
Cain became his children and their children and theirs, through a thousand generations, and all of them transients, and wherever they went everyone remembered that there had been a second creation, that the earth ran with blood and sang with sorrow. And let God purge this wicked sadness away with a flood, and let the waters recede to pools and ponds and ditches, and let every one of them mirror heaven. Still, they taste a bit of blood and hair. One cannot cup one’s hand and drink for the rim of any lake without remembering that mothers have drowned in it, lifting their children toward the air…
---Housekeeping. Marilynne Robinson
)
