Sunday 21 April 2013

homage to joseph cornell


The things that have always struck me about Joseph Cornell are: boxes within boxes, asymmetry, star charts, circles, spheres, glass objects containing things, and of course, birds. The bird is a Black-Billed Barbet (Lybius guifsobalito), native to East Africa. The upper left box contains 19th century mineral specimens. The lower left is from an educational chart about development of ants: it's an ant in its egg.

4 comments:

  1. The compartmentalism, the little vials and test tubes, pretty nice homage, Fi. Love the ant in its egg, don't know why...

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  2. Excellent - a perfect homage to Cornell!

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  3. Very elaborated and meaningful - Cornell would be proud! I love the minerals in the vials!

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  4. Perfect paean to Cornell. Nicely executed.

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