Yesterday traipsed, and I mean traipsed, out to Dia:Beacon in Beacon! Beacon! Beacon! Beacon Beacon! (as the Metro North conductor shouted into the ontrain p.a.), NY with fellow Parsons geniuses: Beth, Philip and Vanessa.
We are currently studying systems in our online "course" and lo and freakin' behold there in our art-seeking midst were works by conceptual system makers Sol LeWitt. I had read about the Richard Serra torqued ellipses there and was ravenous to experience them.
It was like my Belgian workhorse experience: as they got closer, or me to them, they got larger in size, not scale, as Serra says.
The torqued ellipses are four systematic sculptures constructed of three inch thick slabs of steel which is interactive. Each of the four pieces can be entered and #3 there is a double ellipse so you make your way to the center of it via a steely corridor where above the average human's head is about fifteen feet of brown steel ellipse. As the sun comes through the former factory industrial windows light and shadow make the steel, with its own random markings, even more beautiful.
Art, ever surprising.
Grad school, ever challenging.
Coffee, ever needed.
Love.