Findings 45
On negative space, travel-worthy gardens, and boundless landscapes
The seasons shift, the afternoons stretch longer, we have hands in the dirt and eyes on the horizon.
I. To begin & to continue
“I guess that’s the starting point for me: the negative space.” — an interview with Carol Bove, in Frieze
“Elegant renderings of complexity” in a new book from Lynne Tillman
Dialogues between eras: a book from Kenyan-born British potter Magdalene Odundo, “alongside other vessels, ancient and contemporary, from Africa and ancient Greece, and by Hepworth, Moore, Gaudier-Brzeska, and Lucie Rie.”
II. Distant Worlds, Made Closer
Boundless landscapes as seen by painter Yu Kobayashi, by way of Shizuoka, Japan
A packet of postcards from artist Claudia Keep, “scenes I think you will recognize in feeling, if not in fact.”
A new show tracing “the multidisciplinary nature of [Sanford] Biggers’ work through the motif of the cloud.” - on through September 13, Water Mill, NY
III. Listening to the Garden
A “contemplative experience shaped through sound, nature, and attentive listening,” set in the Giardino Mistico dei Carmelitani Scalzi — on through November 22 — Venice
Three gardens we would like to visit:
Scenes from where we are: learning from the bees
IV. Parting Gestures
"The work you do, the person you are” — revisiting this always, from Toni Morrison
