tara donovan’s provoking sculpture: mundane objects build wordly resonance

Tara Donovan, 2008 Macarthur Fellow:

plastic straws

fishing line

paper plates

adding-machine paper

tarpaper

companion post to insect cities: brutalism, tower in the park, tokyo underground

Brasilia National Library: (equisite?) Brutalism
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/197/506159280_fe57073c7b.jpg

le Corbusier proposes Paris
http://blog.roughtheory.org/wp-content/uploads/le_corbusier_vision_paris_smaller.jpg

New York’s Stuyvesant Town: Tower in the Park
http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/03Fxda0cEFdRL/610x.jpg

Tokyo sewer system, drained
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NpINLHeo8rM/Rpto2VQalfI/AAAAAAAADUw/wux-e2efyB4/s1600/Japanese%2Bsewers%2B(4).jpg

Tokyo subway construction
http://www.pingmag.jp/images/title/deepinside.jpg

Technorati Tags: urbanism, brutalism, underground, tower in the park

eusocial insect cities

tower in the park

skyscrapers

colonists

assembly line

freeway

subway systems

Last Views of San Francisco: Mt. Tamalpais to the Crissy Field Center for Environmental Education

  

 

mosiac of water, fog, scrub forest, and cityscape

 

knee-level view

 

dry field with striking colors

clear day on beach public space, pedestrian corridor

 

motor, cycle, and pedestrian traffic streams

 

gestural concrete benches

 

restored salt marsh

back again!

After a long silence due to a move across the Pacific, this is the last public text post I will make in the next foreseeable period due to restrictions on publishing by my grant.  Photo posts will be made consistent with previous themes, but analysis/commentary will be password protected.  Please contact me at land.relief@gmail.com with your wordpress username for no-worries access to this text.