Posts tagged ‘art’

less is more

May 8th, 2009

The artist Jenny Holzer is well known for her compelling work focused on setting ideas and aphorisms in public space. She’ll carve odd, beautiful, memorable sentences into granite, project them hundreds of feet high across well-known landmarks, or send them twirling in endless neon down gallery walls. Recently as I’ve become more engaged with Quakerism [...]

Liminality

January 29th, 2006

“The liminal state is characterized by ambiguity, openness, and indeterminacy. One’s sense of identity dissolves to some extent, bringing about disorientation. Liminality is a period of transition, during which your normal limits to thought, self-understanding, and behavior are relaxed, opening the way to something new.”
- Wikipedia (so it must be true)
I learned about liminality and [...]