Missa Magic 2012

Missa Magic 2012
MISSA is an annual gathering in the West Coast rain forest of like minded artists who work in all media. People come together to teach and learn from each other. What also happens is new friendships are formed, old friendships are more firmly cemented, networks are built up and one's community is expanded. Creativity is contagious and runs rampant throughout the campus.
MISSA is the tonic for your creative well being.

Design: Building Facades

Old building with ornate wooden facade.

 

Old building newly painted with an oxidising paint to make it look older.

New building with a sculptural graphic facade.

Louise Bourgeious

Don't Abandon Me
Another artist I looked at in my essay was Louise Bourgeois. A vital part of her human form sculptures in cloth is they are made from her own garments. This is self psychoanalysis.
She is an amazing role model, producing several shows of new work each year. She will be 98 this year.

A Strange Thing Happened Last Week

...while visiting in Vancouver. I came across this sculpture while walking along the waterfront. I couldn't find any information about what it was called or who the artist was so I snapped some images and thought I would Google it when I got home.

The morning after I returned home to Calgary, I opened up the morning paper to see a photo of the sculpture & the headline 'A big win for Calgary'. "Residents near where the sculpture 'Device to Root Out Evil' was located complained it blocked the view" so Vancouver is getting rid of it and the Glenbow Museum in Calgary has snapped it up even though they don't know where to put it yet.
Dennis Oppenheim is the artist of this controversial work that has been bumped from one place to the next since 1997. I'll post some images of the upside down church when it comes to rest in its new home here in Calgary.