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Backdrops and Washups

What I was younger, I assumed I had to dress up when I went to church. It seemed the theme was “Look nice”, “look respectable”. It makes sense- church is a gathering and our appearance is one way to help each other and ourselves focus our mindset. Long ago, mourning was associated with rough, uncomfortable clothing and acrid ash poured on the head.

Side note: Have you ever tried to get sand out of a toddler’s head? Near to impossible.

Side note: Have you ever tried to get sand out of a toddler’s head? Near to impossible. Now imagine trying to wash ash mixed with head oil and sweat from your head. Each scrub is s reminder of the mourning of the mourning process.

Now, what I wear to a religious gathering is a mixture of rebellion, selfishness and acceptance. I rebel against the shame associated with coming to church “unpresentable”and selfishly throw on a wrinkly t-shirt and dirty shoes. I accept I cannot increase my goodness my washing behind my ears or clipping my nails. I accept that a pressed shirt doesn’t doesn’t let me level-up my religious HP.

Photo of church stage — Swooping draped fabric, hanging oversized origami birds, layered motion graphics from an HD projector, colored spotlights and a 6-person band with a painter. Is it too much? I think it makes sense.

This is why I enjoy the awesome artistic backdrops, the selected fonts and animated graphic backgrounds, focused LED lighting and directed spotlights we use when we gather to contemplate God. The aesthetic appearance around me informs my experience with God.

The aesthetic appearance around me informs my experience with God.

Remembering David G. Hartwell

David G. Hartwell, science fiction’s longest-serving editor and the co-founder of this magazine, is gone. Herein, a collection of memories, conversations, appreciations, poetry, arguments, and outpourings from friends, family, fellow travelers, clients, coworkers, and others whose lives David touched.

Source: New York Review of Science Fiction #330 « Weightless Books

100 Great Science Fiction Stories by Women

100 pieces of short fiction – short stories, novelettes and novellas – by women writers, published between 1927 and 2012.

Source: The list: 100 Great Science Fiction Stories by Women | It Doesn’t Have To Be Right…

1,000 Days. 1,000 Surreal Posters. One … Unfortunate Design | WIRED

Creating art every day is a great exercise to increase patience, creativity and life reflection. Examples: Rachel Teannalach, Kevin Inman, Mary Maxam

For two years and 270 days…Proba has forced herself to sit down and produce [a poster a day]. Her 1,000th poster has a simple blue background with a scattering of (appropriately) 1,000 green, peach, and white dots that each represent a single day of the project.

At the Modern Hotel Art Show 2015, Rachel Teannalach exhibited “TinyExpanse”, where she visually journaled/painted a year of 3″x3″ oil paintings:

Source: 1,000 Days. 1,000 Surreal Posters. One … Unfortunate Design | WIRED

Vildan Turalic: a young Christo?

A massive curtain of orange fabric suspended in a desert canyon.

Islands surrounded by floating pink fabric.

Russian buildings covered in orange fabric.

I’ve never seen Cristo’s work in person, but the images stick in my mind. Vildan Turalic’s work with fabric seems so simple, but it really works well. In “SÝNTHESIS“, I love how the checkerboard of fabric on the forest floor has bits of wood, leaves and dirt-merging the fabric with the forest around it.

Via WoosterCollective.