Here are a few verses from an ancient Psalm. Our God is the same today as He was long ago.The LORD is the one who keeps you, the LORD is your shade on your right hand. The sun will not smite you by day, nor the moon by night. The LORD will preserve/protect/keep safe from destruction/evil. God is actively involved in keeping believers in faith and secure in their salvation.The LORD will preserve your going out and coming in from now even for evermore.Psalm 121: 5-8. I have made it my own. It is good to read the whole.
My post today asks two questions:Firstly, what is an art installation?
It is a three dimensional, often large scale, and immersive artistic genre designed to transform the perception of a specific space.
Key characteristics: site specific, immersive and sensory, viewer participation, temporary nature, indoor or in the street.
Second question, which of these three are an installation?
6am and the sun rising with the early morning mist leaving the lowlands of the Rhine Delta.
Jos Agasi Lens 2025.
Here is some more information taken from boards for us, the public, for the second and third example. First the windmill and then Lens 2025.
The first windmills were to be found in the Middle East, most probably around 700AD. Since wind direction there remained fairly constant the mills always faced the same way.
It’s likely the Crusaders brought the principle of the windmill back to theses parts. In order to make best use of frequent changes in wind direction here, people built the mill house over one upright king pole. This is called a post mill.
Windmill De Valk ( The Falcon) is where I took my videos from. It is an authentic lower cornmill dating from 1743 and is the last of the nineteen mills that used to stand on Leiden’s city walls. It has been a museum since 1966. After the steam engine windmills were sadly no longer needed.
Windmill De Valk. Leiden.
The homely part for the miller.
Now for the installation seen by paying entry to the University of Leiden’s botanical gardens.
One is excited to know more when one reads this sign plants and planets.
It is within this context that we see these lenses an ‘extension’ of our eyes, some concave others convex making random shadows on the walls. Here is what is said:
‘ With this artwork Jo Agasi invites us to see things in a different way. He makes light from the projectors refract, bend or reflect in unpredictable ways, opening the door to chance. In this way, he pays tribute to the beauty of the lenses, and of light.’
The beauty of light and shadow. The rising sun at 6 am, the movement of a mill arm, lenses placed. Light and shadow are everywhere.
Leiden was beautiful in the sunshine and here are some sayings: The first is Dutch,
‘You can’t stop the windmills.’Similar to ‘ You can’t fight the tide.’
The next: ‘ Even the slowest windmill turns when the wind blows.’ This is about patience and timing. If conditions are right, even slow progress happens.
The last is from Don Quixote:’Tilting at windmills.’This means attacking imaginary enemies or fighting battles you can’t win. It is used when someone is chasing a problem that isn’t real or is way out of proportion.
There is always more, much more!
Take care,
Sandy 🙂