Slog - Comments on The Hospital Ceiling http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_hospital_ceiling In my review of Jim O'Donnell's beguiling A Spectral Glimpse show up now at Platform Gallery (great slide show here), I mentioned Chicago-based artist Adam Ekberg only briefly. His two photographs in the show depict the rainbowy flare of the sun on the camera's lens as it points toward the sky from the floor of a forest. They're large and gorgeous, and in their hippy-dippy awestruck way they nod to a video by Ekberg I've only heard about and never seen, of a light show on the top of a mountain in the dark. Here's a still: This, in turn,... Copyright 2008 Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:37:40 -0800 Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:48:05 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by dirty girl wow. that is just so incredibly DEEP.

]]> dirty girl http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_hospital_ceiling#c849422 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_hospital_ceiling#c849422 Arts Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:03:00 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle I remember when, on first moving into the condo in Fremont, there was a giant tree outside and how fun it was to stare up at the branches outside.

Sadly, the termites got it.

Trees are magical creatures.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_hospital_ceiling#c849435 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_hospital_ceiling#c849435 Arts Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:09:40 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe Can't say there is anything spectacular about any of those pictures. Especially the "hospital bed" shots. Those are actually just generally boring and thoughtless.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_hospital_ceiling#c849437 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_hospital_ceiling#c849437 Arts Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:11:06 -0800 Comment by BC junk.

]]> BC http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_hospital_ceiling#c849447 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_hospital_ceiling#c849447 Arts Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:15:33 -0800 Comment by J-9 thanks for the reminder: I need to make a dental appointment.

]]> J-9 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_hospital_ceiling#c849460 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_hospital_ceiling#c849460 Arts Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:24:12 -0800 Comment by Steven Miller jesus christ, if this is what fascinates you, I'm doomed in this fucking city. I often wondered why I get ignored by the Stranger - now I know: I haven't made utterly vapid "conceptual" art. I'll get right on it.

]]> Steven Miller http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_hospital_ceiling#c849604 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_hospital_ceiling#c849604 Arts Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:16:54 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle @6 - well, tell us when you do and we can get the NYT to call you an artist then.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_hospital_ceiling#c849723 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_hospital_ceiling#c849723 Arts Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:34:45 -0800 Comment by Wowza I saw this month that Ms. Graves is a contributor to The Believer as well.

If I didn't "get" her much before, I surely do now.

]]> Wowza http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_hospital_ceiling#c849940 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_hospital_ceiling#c849940 Arts Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:13:36 -0800 Comment by The CHZA Hospital ceiling photographs... wow. I'll go take some pictures of my local BP parking lot and have it be illustrative of what you see right before you die after getting shot in the back or something. DEEP.

]]> The CHZA http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_hospital_ceiling#c850125 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_hospital_ceiling#c850125 Arts Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:09:53 -0800 Comment by Dr_Awesome The light-in-the-forest shot is cool, and kinda ethereal.

The tree, lit up in the foreground, so bright it almost casts a shadow on the sky: Wow. Just wow. I could stare at that photo all day. Even more than at the photo of the Mies Van der Rohe house in Slog last month. I dunno what it is about trees and weird light but it strikes at something in me.

Edward Hopper could have painted that tree.

]]> Dr_Awesome http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_hospital_ceiling#c850174 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_hospital_ceiling#c850174 Arts Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:48:05 -0800