So last week I wrote about how I had lost my camera chargerand so haven’t had the opportunity to take any photos lately. Which is sad because there are a lot of fun things of which I would like to take photos. Well luckily (which turns out to be unlucky later you will see) I found my charger in my desk drawer. Why I hadn’t thought to look there before I don’t know. Anyhow I found my charger just in time for my parents’ visit. Yay! So last Thursday we went to the Great Sand Dunes and I was so happy because I was able to take my camera. I later discovered this was a very bad idea and I now wish I hadn’t been
able to charge it. Some of the sand got into my camera lens. It won’t retract. It is broken. They say I can send it to Illinois to get it repaired, but I’m thinking that with shipping and a lack of warrantee that repairs w
ill end up costing about the same as buying the same camera in its latest version for about $150. Which, as a volunteer, I most definitely don’t have. Luckily my birthday is in about 6 weeks so perhaps my parents will chip in on a new camera.
So that sucks and I still don’t have pictures to share so instead I present this amazing art piece that I discovered while reading fog and thistle’s blog. Fog and Thistle does great paper cut artwork which gave her a great apprecation for artist Jiyeon Song’s art.
Using a matrix of perforations, light passes through the pavilion’s surface producing shifting patterns, which transform into the text of a poem. It takes about 8 hours to see the entire poem, with each line visible for about an hour. The specific arrangements of the perforations reveal different poems according to the solar calendar: a theme of new-life during the summer solstice. During the summer solstice, the poem will contain the theme of “new life”. During the winter solstice, the poem will be on “reflection and the passing of time.”
The time lapse video on the artist’s website shows the poems through the day and seasons. Cool huh?
Film camera…. cough.