Visual Arts, Columbia University, New York

This course examines ways of looking and ways of seeing, both personally & professionally as artists and in a larger cultural context. Through field trips to contemporary art and other cultural sites, conversations with visiting critical thinkers and practicioners, readings, discussions, and visual & written responses, we will examine how we look, think, act, create and respond--critically questioning our own artistic practices and ways of looking at the world.

Thursday, April 4, 2013

Ghost of the deer


The PixCell-Deer#24 by Kohei Nawa is a taxidermied deer sculpted with glass PixCell beads...
http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/search-the-collections/60051566?img=1

The deer is said to resemble a religious painting known as Kasuga Deer Mandala, 'which features a deer - the messenger animal of Shinto deities - posed similarly with its head turned to its side, and with a round sacred mirror on its back.

Perhaps this is the sacred mirror..



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