Comments on: Art in geological time http://blog.longnow.org/2007/07/24/art-in-geological-time/ The Official Weblog of The Long Now Foundation and Friends Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Christopher Whalen http://blog.longnow.org/2007/07/24/art-in-geological-time/comment-page-1/#comment-2118 Christopher Whalen Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:07:04 +0000 http://blog.longnow.org/2007/07/24/art-in-geological-time/#comment-2118 It's a pleasure to read such a good-looking site. Why don't people care as much about the appearance of their websites as they care about their physical appearance in the muggins' world? What I like about Gormley is the way his sculptures and installations make you part of the work. Then to read his intellectual stuff about them makes you think differently again. Yet both responses feel valid and non-contradictory. I certainly agree that his email was great in scale! Never mind the width, feel the quality! The "Event Horizon" series in London does for the city what I imagine "Another Place" does for a beach: it creates this wistful, protective space - utterly human in that comfortable, distant way that I like to aspire towards but often find is confounded when I actually have to meet the people of a city. It’s a pleasure to read such a good-looking site. Why don’t people care as much about the appearance of their websites as they care about their physical appearance in the muggins’ world?

What I like about Gormley is the way his sculptures and installations make you part of the work. Then to read his intellectual stuff about them makes you think differently again. Yet both responses feel valid and non-contradictory.

I certainly agree that his email was great in scale! Never mind the width, feel the quality!

The “Event Horizon” series in London does for the city what I imagine “Another Place” does for a beach: it creates this wistful, protective space – utterly human in that comfortable, distant way that I like to aspire towards but often find is confounded when I actually have to meet the people of a city.

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