What the Land Remembers: Julian Charrière and Ruinart Engage in Conversations with Nature - IGNANT
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What the Land Remembers: Julian Charrière and Ruinart Engage in Conversations with Nature - IGNANT
Artworks don’t manage knowledge—they channel it. It takes time and attention to understand an artwork’s meaning. Each piece demands a process of reconciliation, and a merging of two contexts: the artwork’s own history and the viewer’s private knowledge network. When it’s placed in a new context, its meaning evolves and expands elastically. It store... See more
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One of the most inspiring things I learned was about how the ancient Greeks used to consider marble a semi-living thing. “The exhalations of the earth.” The idea of stone as crystallized breath is so poetic to me. It’s also a reminder of the great systems that are in progress all around us, the natural order of things, it’s nothing short of a mirac
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As artists, we seek to restore our childlike perception: a more innocent state of wonder and appreciation not tethered to utility or survival. Our filter inevitably reduces Source intelligence by interpreting the data that arrives instead of letting it pass freely. As the vessel fills with these recast fragments, relationships are created with the
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