MAYA LIN: SYSTEMATIC LANDSCAPES

Josie: (let me just say the computer is being a bitch and won't let me put the pictures where I want them....am very angry...I wanted them swapped over so you see the landscape one first!!!GRRRRRR!!!!!)...
Hello again for another week darlings!! How good was the weather at the end of the week??!! Its almost summer which makes lil Josie here oh so very excited!! I have so much to say to you all...but....there is one tiny problem- i am sitting at home at my old, slow computer, so therefore I cannot tell you all the goss......ha-ha! Oh-well!!...
NEWAY- so I was looking through Art In America journal this week, July/August edition..no.6, page 100 i think (dont quote me tho)....( I thought that i would stray away from my usual being Sculpture mag......as good as it it, Art in America has its perks too!!)....and I came across a page on this artist called Maya Lin, who is having an exhibition called SYSTEMATIC LANDSCAPES in Seattle. ... (road trip anyone?)....I admit- I isn't an actual article as such, but it had the website (www.henryart.org)- which I took a look at and found out some stuff about this Maya chick. The thing that caught my eye was the photo which im posting as well....called Landscape....of all the little wooden pieces making the landsacpe....oh my god....doesnt it look siiik??? Well i think so anyway, even if some (which I know) will think its crap....I like it:)
The whole exhibition is of notions of landscape and geometric phenomena. Yeah- sounds strage- I knnow- this sorta thing doesn't usually tickle my fancy, but I guess its the presentation that really makes the particular artwork complelty amazing!! Maya uses satelitte imagery over a long period of time to come up with these contemporary installations. Tres tres cool!!

So then I was looking at some of her other stuff, and stumbled upon one called Waterline, using aluminium tubing and paint. It is fantastical!! I just looked and thought- oooh wow, how very weird, but cool. You all being artists and all, like you can just look at something and know straight away whether you like it or not.....I just fully click with the art that Maya Lin is making!! Do all check it out, or at least check out the website and read up on it for yourselves. Yes....I do hear a constant moan because I know we're all so very busy these few weeks, but just do it!!! hehehe...
Love you all, have a siik week and take care ....don't get in ttoo much trouble;) ha
love josie xox