現実の捉え方を追求する想像的な彫刻
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TEDフェロー、アリーシャ・エガートが私たちを彼女の作品を巡る視覚的な旅へと誘います。メイン州の無人島に建てられた巨大な彫刻から、人間が手をつなぐと電流が流れ、その時だけ膨らむインタラクティブなインスタレーションへまで様々です。彼女の作品は、失意の時に感銘を与え、希望を育むようなアートの力を追求しています。エガートは、こう言葉にしています。「もっと明るく、持続可能で、平等な未来が実現されるかどうかは、まず私たち自身がそんな未来を想像できるかどうかにかかっているのです」
TEDフェロー、アリーシャ・エガートが私たちを彼女の作品を巡る視覚的な旅へと誘います。メイン州の無人島に建てられた巨大な彫刻から、人間が手をつなぐと電流が流れ、その時だけ膨らむインタラクティブなインスタレーションへまで様々です。彼女の作品は、失意の時に感銘を与え、希望を育むようなアートの力を追求しています。エガートは、こう言葉にしています。「もっと明るく、持続可能で、平等な未来が実現されるかどうかは、まず私たち自身がそんな未来を想像できるかどうかにかかっているのです」
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TED Fellow Alicia Eggert is an artist making words into sculptures, often in the form of flashing neon signs.
Jesse Prinz | Aeon, 2013 | Article
"How Wonder Works"
This article talks about how wonder is the most human of emotions, and it's also what science, religion and art all have in common. Wonder is both cognitive and spiritual. It's the curiosity that drives us to learn new things about the world around us, but it's also the feeling we get when we encounter things that are beyond our understanding.
Dennis Overbye | New York Times, 2016 | Article
"Don't Let Them Tell You You're Not at the Center of the Universe"
This article inspired my neon sign "All the Light You See." I love how Overbye makes Einstein's theory of relativity so easy to understand, almost palpable, especially when he talks about the time it takes the light from the sun to reach our skin. It's amazing to think that the further out in space we look, the further back in time we see, and that our eye are basically like little time machines.
Stewart Brand | Basic Books, 2000 | Book
The Clock of the Long Now
In this book, Stewart Brand explains his reasons for starting the Long Now Foundation (of which I am a member). The projects they are working on, like a mechanical clock that will keep track of time in 10,000-year increments, aim to foster long-term thinking and responsibility at a time when "now" seems to be getting smaller every day and our short-term thinking is having detrimental effects on the planet. This book has influenced the way I perceive and think about time. Recently, I was given permission from Stewart Brand to use a quote from the book to create my most recent neon sign, which says, "This present moment used to be the unimaginable future."
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