“To require perfection is to invite paralysis. The pattern is predictable: as you see error in what you have done, you steer your work toward what you imagine you can do perfectly. Your cling ever more tightly to what you already know you can do, away from risk and exploration, and possibly further from the…
Tag: The Helsinki School
Ars Poetica VI – stanza
(or: how to set up a perfect exhibition) It seems to me that poetic theory is very often also is relevant for visual aesthetics. See for example the concept of stanza, which actually originates from the Italian: room, station, stopping-place, halting place, from Vulgar Latin stantia – station, from Latin stāre to stand: STANCE. in poetry stanza is – according to…
1 = 1
Today I have been reading “1 = 1” by Anne Carson It’s a wonderful text, you’ll find it in THE NEW YORKER – and here are just a few lines for you: Imagine how many pools, ponds, lakes, bays, streams, stretches of swimmable shore there are in the world right now, probably half of them…
Last text on print in 2014
My last review this year was of a beautiful exhibition by the Finnish photographer Nelli Palomäki. Nelli Palomäki: Roi at 7 Nelli Palomäki was born 1981 in Forssa, Finland. She lives and works in Helsinki. Palomäki is connected to The Helsinki School – a selected group of artists who have graduated or attended Aalto University, School of Arts,…
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