Friday, March 7, 2008

Lita Albuquerque (CU Lecture; Tues Mar 4 '08)



w/ Clay. Then we went to Taco Bell.

notes: She incubated in Africa. Something about a convent. Immigrated when she was 11. Is into mapping the cosmos. Being an artist is about freedom. She works from intuition and spreads pigment out on the ground and on the floor. Something about the procession of the equinoxes and vedic cycles. We get information from light. The sun may be in a binary star relationship with Sirius, the dog star. She was captivated by the horizon line for a while; something about her own verticality. She lined up a V to match the shadow of the Washington monument. She went to Antarctica do make a star map on the ground using blue balls: stellar axis. A companion art piece on the North Pole would invoke the idea of a spiraling DNA through the Earth's axis ... strands of star tehters, maybe. We're made of electricity and her purpose is to increase stellar awareness.

I enjoyed the scope of her ideas. I'd like to connect some stars and stories.

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