Column, 2011, Sculpture
2008
Sichuan Earthquake Images
After a massive earthquake wrought havoc on Sichuan province on May 12, 2008, Ai Weiwei traveled to the region to document the destruction. More than 69,000 people were killed in the quake, including many children who were buried when their schools collapsed because of lax construction code enforcement. Ai Weiwei was severely beaten by police for trying to get the government to release an official list of those killed in the disaster. He was finally able to obtain 5,385 names of students killed and published them on his blog for the first anniversary of the earthquake.
ledger drawing | kiowa indian | 1868
dream or vision of himself changed to a destroyer and riding a buffalo eagle
What do I miss about living in Canada?… The people
The paradox of creation, the coming of the forms of time out of eternity, is the germinal secret of the father. It can never be quite explained. Therefore, in every system of theology there is an umbilical point, an Achilles tendon which the finger of mother life has touched, and where the possibility of perfect knowledge has been impaired. The problem of the hero is to pierce himself (and therewith his world) precisely through that point; to shatter and annihilate that key knot of his limited existence.
The problem of the hero going to meet the father is to open his soul beyond terror to such a degree that he will be ripe to understand how the sickening validated in the majesty of Being. The hero transcends life with its peculiar blind spot and for a moment rises to a glimpse of the source. He beholds the face of the father, understands-and the two are atoned.
Chloe Green
Melissa Manfull
