Very Cool "Ice Cube Project"

[guywithmonsters]

OK, this is cool.

Iceberg Off Western Greenland Painted Red


I'm sure I'd have more mixed feelings if I lived there (it totally corrupts the natural beauty of the landscape but in a very affective way...)

It reminds me of Andy Goldsworthy. I like that it forces you to look at the ice flows in a new way.

The question that plagues me is how long will the paint last and what impact will it have on the other flows and the water?

What do you kids think?

Comments

[chinacub.livejournal.com]

I think I'd like to see it in person before deciding. It could be interesting or just gaudy.

But did you read about his other project, with the goldfish?!

[goreyboy.livejournal.com]

Yeah and the spin on that is totally different on his site (of course). I thought that was cool until the fish got blended - but then why were they plugged in?

That made me more nervous about the impact of the dye/paint as it melted.

[chinacub.livejournal.com]

I don't know how I feel about the fish getting blended. It's kind of cool in a transgressive way (and cruel in the same way).

[goreyboy.livejournal.com]

It's the cruelty that overrides the other things for me. I can't get beyond it.

[macushla.livejournal.com]

I'd kind of like to see it in person too.
I'm sure a photograph doesn't do it justice.
It is very much like Andy Goldsworthy.
And a little like the Cat in the Hat. ;)
Is everything going to turn pink and leave a bathtub ring?

[goreyboy.livejournal.com]

Is everything going to turn pink and leave a bathtub ring?

That's what I fear will happen and that would suck.

[bunnycoco.livejournal.com]

I disagree about the Goldsworthy connection--his interaction with nature finds inspiration in natural processes, while this iceberg piece seems more about our need to control and dominate. Like the English Garden. Remember Katherine Hepburn in The African Queen, "Nature is what we're here to rise above.." although here we're rising above natural aesthetics. I'm not sure I like this piece, although I think the things that I don't like about it are the things that I'm glad that he's making us think about.

[goreyboy.livejournal.com]

I thought Goldsworthy in that it forces you to notice the natural environment by altering a piece of it. I see what you mean about the difference and I agree that this is more about subverting the natural than celebrating it (though it does highlight the forms). The graphic nature of it appeals to me.

It's funny that you mention English Gardens as I was thinking about them this morning. We're starting to garden/landscape and I'm torn between that and a more natural approach. It's new construction - so the landscape has been completely wiped clean. My previous garden was more like a wild "Cottage Garden", but that doesn't really seem to fit here. [shrug]

[bunnycoco.livejournal.com]

I see your point about Goldsworthy... Oddly, I tend to like very formal gardens, particularly of the French and Italian Renaissance, with their over-the-top precision and artificiality. I love English Gardens, too, and find them just as artificial, but in a different way--nature as we'd like it to be. I'm very envious of your clean slate.

just ...

[pup-ajax.livejournal.com]

yuck. i don't like it all.

... despite the fact that i do like cherry flavored snowcones.

Re: just ...

[goreyboy.livejournal.com]

Someone should seel them within view. It'd be funny.

[lostlakebear.livejournal.com]

It reminds me of Christo's work, and I enjoy in it the same transformational quality. I do wonder how it looks in person. Does the photograph add it's own layer of beauty to what otherwise might be a big, red eyesore? I have seen amazingly beautiful photographs of trash and junk

I must admit I am not familiar with Goldsworthy, but I have now been warned away from googling Goldsworth and goldfish. Yuck.

[goreyboy.livejournal.com]

Check out Goldsworthy. He rocks (and doesn't puree anyone).

I can see where you'd get Christo. Have you seen his plans for Central Park? It'll be cool but he/they need to secure public access to a viewing platform/room in one of the adjacent towers.

I'm curious as well. It exists as a complete object/image in itself now. How is it in context? "Public Art" is a lot like architecture in that it can be diminished by the context.