Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.00.1111091611240.5831@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: maudatar
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 16:12:31 -0500 (EST)
maudatar "]below are a couple of urls to online websites that we connect to for the fact we think they really are truly worth visiting[...]... "[...]what follows are a couple of references to websites which I link to as we feel they're truly worth checking out[...]..." http://www.alansondheim.org/maudatar1.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/maudatar2.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/maudatar3.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/maudatar4.jpg maudatar is an abstracted avatar-form produced originally in Blender and motivated by modified bvh files in a number of videos. there are some internal chambers which may or may not connect. the form is dedicated to the dancer Maud Liardon, who we worked with several years ago. the ideal size of the piece would be somewhere around a meter high, perhaps slightly less, something dominant, yet something one might trip over. the holes might take an arm or leg or might not. the form sloughs from organic to industrial, as if iron or liquid metal were home-grown. everything in the world is graceful, full of grace. there are no weeds, no vermin; there are only life-forms and our blindness in relation to the destructiveness of our own value systems. we are the fundamental of invasive species, but we can make harmonies of untoward fragile and sullen beauty, something one might inhabit, something fulfilling dreams of creatures great and small.
