Thursday, December 9, 2010
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Photographic source material, animation, concept and audio by Paul McLean, for the Matterhorn Project.
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Photographic source material, animation, concept and audio by Paul McLean, for the Matterhorn Project.
Photographic source material, animation, concept and audio by Paul McLean, for the Matterhorn Project.
Gramática parda
Thoreau wrote of “this vast, savage, howling mother of ours, Nature, lying all around, with such beauty, and such affection for her children, as the leopard; and yet we are so early weaned from her breast to society.” Is it possible that a society as a whole might stay on better terms with nature, and not simply by being foragers? Thoreau replies: “The Spaniards have a good term to express this wild and dusky knowledge, Gramatica parda, tawny grammar, a kind of mother-wit derived from that same leopard to which I have referred.” The grammar not only of language, but of culture and civilization itself, is of the same order as this mossy little forest creek, this desert cobble. [Gary Snyder - The Practice of the Wild]
Inaugural Exhibition
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This blog exists as both a record and resource to the artists participating in the first iteration of the Gramática parda project.
Note from Joe Merrell: Special thanks to Paul McLean for his energy and advice at the outset - important and appreciated!
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