Doris Salcedo On 'Tabula Rasa'

Doris Salcedo discusses her 'Tabula Rasa' series of sculptures. Highlighting the themes in the work, Salcedo explains how the project emerged through extensive research and a painstaking process of destruction and reconstruction. Click here to view video.

The Mesmerizing Microscopy of Trees: Otherworldly Images Revealing the Cellular Structure of Wood Specimens

The Mesmerizing Microscopy of Trees: Otherworldly Images Revealing the Cellular Structure of Wood Specimens.

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"Waves of Grain" By Keith Skretch

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Images by Keith Skretch
Sound by Ennio Morricone, "The Big Gundown"

To create this strata-cut animation, I planed down a block of wood one layer at a time, photographing it at each pass. The painstaking process revealed a hidden life and motion in the seemingly static grain of the wood, even as the wood itself was reduced to a mound of sawdust.

Official Selection, Chicago Underground Film Festival 2013
Official Selection, Brooklyn Film Festival 2013
Official Selection, Provincetown International Film Festival 2013
Official Selection, Corona Fastnet Short Film Festival 2013
Official Selection, DC Shorts Film Festival 2013

Created at CalArts.

ANNI ALBERS - MATERIAL AS METAPHOR (1982)

Anni Albers winding a bobbin at Black Mountain College, 1941, Photograph by Claude Stoller.  

Material as Metaphor (1982) here

Work With Material (1938) here

Slavoj Žižek: Love is Evil

Slavoj Žižek discusses love here

TOM SACHS - LOVE LETTER TO PLYWOOD

View Tom Sachs Love Letter to Plywood here

FUTURE FARMERS

Future Farmers website here