Comments on: Jet Set Saturdays: Bale Creek Allen and James Hill at Solway Jones http://www.artlurker.com/2009/12/jet-set-saturdays-bale-creek-allen-and-james-hill-at-solway-jones/ A Miami based contemporary art newsletter / blog Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:48:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Richard Haden http://www.artlurker.com/2009/12/jet-set-saturdays-bale-creek-allen-and-james-hill-at-solway-jones/comment-page-1/#comment-9701 Richard Haden Sat, 12 Dec 2009 21:40:36 +0000 http://www.artlurker.com/?p=3332#comment-9701 I like the tumble weed metaphor for drifting. As well I like how Bale Creek Allen speaks through the semiprecious nature of cast bronze---to comment---perhaps--- it can be read as a conversation on the nature of letting go of ones roots. In order to find ourselves and home we have to branch out in time and space...In doing so we read another account of how we find closeness and home by taking up the anxious travel on the plains of self exile...all the while looking for the home nearest ourself. Whether it is art works drifting through collections or tumbling through the Texas prairie the significance of drifting is a reminder that time is well spent looking around as a contemporary high plains drifter... What better way to understand the world and "others" than by drifting.... Allen's work reminds me of a compact Roxy Paine, who we might read in reverse to Allen. Roxy Paine instead of drifting, plants his rooted stainless steel trees much more like the aspen rooted [Rhizome]. The roots travel horizontally underground and pop up in different geographical locals. As is described by Gilles Deluze as Univosity (Deluze's take on Spinoza's Rhizome) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizome http://users.rcn.com/bmetcalf.ma.ultranet/What%20is%20Univocity.htm I like the tumble weed metaphor for drifting. As well I like how Bale Creek Allen speaks through the semiprecious nature of cast bronze—to comment—perhaps— it can be read as a conversation on the nature of letting go of ones roots. In order to find ourselves and home we have to branch out in time and space…In doing so we read another account of how we find closeness and home by taking up the anxious travel on the plains of self exile…all the while looking for the home nearest ourself. Whether it is art works drifting through collections or tumbling through the Texas prairie the significance of drifting is a reminder that time is well spent looking around as a contemporary high plains drifter… What better way to understand the world and “others” than by drifting….

Allen’s work reminds me of a compact Roxy Paine, who we might read in reverse to Allen. Roxy Paine instead of drifting, plants his rooted stainless steel trees much more like the aspen rooted [Rhizome]. The roots travel horizontally underground and pop up in different geographical locals. As is described by Gilles Deluze as Univosity (Deluze’s take on Spinoza’s Rhizome)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizome

http://users.rcn.com/bmetcalf.ma.ultranet/What%20is%20Univocity.htm

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