I lost sight of this blog, buried in a big project and a flurry of exhibits. More later on "Scenic Overlook" and other exhibits, but this summer has been completely turned over to a large commission for the new Bass Biology Building at Stanford. High resolution photographs of ocean waves – color reversed and knitted … Continue reading Bass Biology
Author: gailwight
diatoms
I recently finished reading The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf. It's one of the best books I've read in the past few years, along with Elizabeth Kolbert's The Sixth Extinction. Both of these books are about the big picture, about deep time and the interrelatedness of all things, living and non-living. The Invention of Nature is … Continue reading diatoms
free ride
https://vimeo.com/247895416 Here are two more nudibranchs from Salt Point. The video shows (I think) a Cockerell's Dorid. It's right at the water line, and is hitching a free ride on a limpet. Or maybe trying to eat it? By the end of the video, you can see its foot and the rhinophores, yellow-tipped and feathery, … Continue reading free ride
nudibranchs
I've started a new work that has me, happily, back to shooting video in the tide pools at Salt Point. It means catching the tides and the weather at the right hour, on days when I'm in the area – a rare mix. Friday was a perfect day, and I was trying out a new … Continue reading nudibranchs
place
The very opening of Tacita Dean & Jeremy Millar's book Place: "The question, what is place? presents many difficulties. An examination of all the relevant facts seems to lead to different conclusions. Moreover, we have inherited nothing from previous thinkers, whether in the way of a statement of difficulties or of a solution." – Aristotle, Book IV, … Continue reading place
Cerulean Blues
June and July and nearly August... As I listed these months, counting the time since my last post, a cover of "Fly Like an Eagle" by Tony Crown started playing in the background. It was a slow ghostly version of the old Steve Miller Band song, never heard this version before. Perfect synchronicity. Time keeps … Continue reading Cerulean Blues
swimmy Pool video
Thanks to David Stroud for shooting this video of Pool at Hosfelt Gallery. It's the most beautifully sunny gallery in all of San Francisco, so the video is a little pale. There's a Nam June Paik piece across the room that's an aquarium in an old wooden CRT television case, critters built out of vacuum … Continue reading swimmy Pool video
Pool
Pool is finally up at Hosfelt Gallery. Well... it's been up for two weeks, but I'm just getting around to posting some photos. So here's how it works: Pool was shot in the tide pools of Salt Point from late January through April of this year. The video is projected onto the floor, passing through … Continue reading Pool
washed out
this washed out of the woods last week:
thrashed about
I just ordered this book from a store in Oregon: I ordered it, ostensibly, for the graduate seminar I'll be teaching this spring on "professional practices" for artists. It's good to have alternatives. While I wait, I'm indulging in a fantasy about this book: that it will give me great peace of mind, reassurance, and … Continue reading thrashed about
