Boise has something similar, a civic art project of several red chronoscopes downtown. You peer through them and see a Chinese parade from the '20s, Basque boarding houses, buildings long since demolished, that sort of thing.
That is a truly beautiful project in so many ways, aesthetic, historical and philosophical.
I spent all night last night reminiscing over 25 years of friendship and photos and letters instead of sleeping, so I'm babbling a bit, but this strikes me as a dark and more deeply poignant expression of a similar device used for the gentler ghosts of history in the simple artwork of James Lumbers twelve years ago.
The idea that "The Past Didn't Go Anywhere" is a profound part of my symbolic "quartumverate" philosophy.
I've always thought about where people have moved in the past. Are my footsteps falling where his footsteps fell? This lover who was here, where I am, but at a different time. I always want to be able to see what people touched, in neon, like dust.
"God gave us memory so we could have roses in December" - J.M.Barriea_dream_tigerJanuary 30 2009, 02:55:43 UTC
I love being open to the presence of the past, the voice of ghosts, experience, history... it's a kind of magic. Feeling the vast fabric of an infinite number of tiny acts converging like threads to the point in space and time where your footsteps are falling right now, binding and grounding the ephemeral moment, weaving it into a rich tapestry of all who came before.
Combine the accretion of memory with the presence of moment and the potential of horizons and integrate them in balance.
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I spent all night last night reminiscing over 25 years of friendship and photos and letters instead of sleeping, so I'm babbling a bit, but this strikes me as a dark and more deeply poignant expression of a similar device used for the gentler ghosts of history in the simple artwork of James Lumbers twelve years ago.
The idea that "The Past Didn't Go Anywhere" is a profound part of my symbolic "quartumverate" philosophy.
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Combine the accretion of memory with the presence of moment and the potential of horizons and integrate them in balance.
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