Thomas Woodruff "Solar System (The Turning Heads)"
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Thomas Woodruff is an artist guilty in indulging in visual excesses and entering artistic territory not often traveled by his contemporaries. For this series he has turned his attention to the cosmos and like most of Woodruff’s other projects, this one started with a simple idea: to see if the traditional visual parlor trick of the “upside-down head” could be taken to new pictorial heights while conveying emotional depth.
The initial impetus began two years ago when a close friend of Woodruff was diagnosed with early Alzheimer’s disease. The friend turned to puzzles to try to keep his mind sharpened, and Woodruff began to create his own puzzles where a character can turn into another by a simple flip. After perfecting the tricky two-sided image strategy, Woodruff decided to structure a project depicting the planets, using Gustav Holst’s 1916 orchestral work, The Planets Suite, as inspiration. The planets have been impeccably rendered on black silk velvet and are motorized to turn. These choices are deliberate gestures to challenge our oft-puritanical levels of taste.
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from October 09, 2008 to November 15, 2008