Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Visual Art Microbes in Glass
Posted by Jen Graves on Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 8:59 AM
British artist Luke Jerram's glass sculpture of HIV:
His swine flu:
His web site here, and the blog where I first saw there, here.
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Life forms so small. Seeing them enlarged gives them an underserved beauty. But it also takes away some of their power to destroy.
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I love things like this. I suppose there's an immediate effect in depicting viruses but it would be so much fun to come up with fictional diatoms and radiolarians, too!
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There was a period of days -- or maybe it just seemed that long -- during which the #2 comment for a given post also happened to be shit. Not every time, mind you. Just so frequently that, on the cusp of taking up a belief in God, I instead decided it was just a big, giant stupid conspiracy.
Anyway: this is an ingenious idea, and I would love to see this exhibit. But I must also agree with #5 that, while sublimating something inherently ugly, this art does nothing to reduce the ability of the HIV virus to destroy. That's because this is art, which does not kill, and the HIV virus is not art and does kill.
To confound the two is to bring the thoughtful appreciation of art into disrepute among people of good sense.
Anyway: this is an ingenious idea, and I would love to see this exhibit. But I must also agree with #5 that, while sublimating something inherently ugly, this art does nothing to reduce the ability of the HIV virus to destroy. That's because this is art, which does not kill, and the HIV virus is not art and does kill.
To confound the two is to bring the thoughtful appreciation of art into disrepute among people of good sense.
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