i've been searching --------- some new thoughts, ideas, approaches

gestures becoming more important to me - tv, movies, globalism, gestures becoming more universal, universally understood - development of common visual language

gestures in art - art history - Baroque, Rococo: over-the-top drama - copies of porcelain figurines as symbols of this drama - make them explode and record it. Cornelia Parker's rock sculptures - explosions abstracted, frozen

the principal of explosions: from the inside out, expanding, undefined space, expansion from the center, in opposite of ceiling paintings where everything is directed toward central event - artificial spherical space is created by painter, controlled - explosion: space is created by explosion but uncontrolled (ultimate explosion: nuclear explosion: indefinite expansion), precarious

HAVE TO BUILD MODEL OF GALLERY SPACE

need to experiment w/ firecrackers BUT would like to make explosions more abstract, less obvious - tested balloon explosions, rather lame because balloon and material just collapsed

get away from ethereal, celestial, sensational of sky, heaven, explosion, purgatory, make it mechanical: create space above a ceiling paintings, looking down onto the heads of people

photograph people in conversation, small groups, from above, like in the duomo in Milan - looking down at them - light as if a huge door opened and let sight in, like in photo above



today, sunday, i photographed the angel from the dollar store - i smashed it with a hammer - hand gesture remains, like it a lot - create sculptures with porcelain figures and screws and photograph them, see diagram below

polaroid of angel base with fragments

lines = screws