photo snatched from www.ujinlee.comUjin Lee and Tom Edwards is currently working on this project called DUST. It says on the web site, that the project is in progress, why there is very little information to find about the thoughts behind the project.
As we are at South Pole Station exploring the 'aesthetics of dust' I find this project interesting as a kind of research. It seems that they are working with dust in a global sense, as it can occur everywhere - indoors awa outdoors.
The dust clouds created by Lee and Edwards contains traces of an explosion (horizontal lines), which leads me to the thought that they are 'created' as artifacts more than 'observed' as unexplainable natural phenomena. The aesthetics of theese explosions is powerful and agressive yet quiet as they lift them selves from the ground.
Will you ever be able to find a dust cloud like this without seeing to guys with a trigger and a camera?
I think it is important for the next takes on the 'aesthetics of dust' that we explore more closely the ephemeral qualities in the dust, and of cause, treat the dust as clouds instead of explosions.
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I will rate this as high relevant explosive material compared to the richard wilson post!
ReplyDeleteThere's something about dust, that's for sure, but the dusty world is a unlimited space of investigation. It's all about the approach and the specific details in the action of dust. I like the idea of dust as a non explosive event, but maybe 'cloud' is a difficult metaphor. The 'aesthetics of dust' (TAOD) is confronted with gravity - you can describe it as a epi-explosion state of being. The state where the particles is controlled by gravity and the forces of wind/atmosphere.