Thursday 31 January 2019

I Love Looking At Neon Signs,

like the one below,


a photograph I took in Walking Street, Pattaya, over the years I have seen moving neon signs, but never a sculpture, where the neon moves,

 until now,

it is a work by the New York City-based artist Tavares Strachan,

 titled 'What Will Be Remembered in the Face of All That is Forgotten', 

  the circulatory system is a glowing reminder of English scientist Rosalind Franklin’s contributions to the field of science, mainly the discovery of DNA’s molecular structures,

but here is the thing, in Strachan's sculpture the neon flows mimicking the flow of blood, the work was originally included in the solo exhibition Seeing is Forgetting the Thing that You Saw at Anthony Meier Fine Arts in San Francisco, which examined individuals whose names have been omitted from common accounts of history despite their great accomplishments, Strachan, in partnership with LACMA Art + Technology Lab and SpaceX, also recently launched a sculpture honoring Robert Henry Lawrence Jr., the first African-American to train as an astronaut with NASA. Although Lawrence never made it into space, a 24-karat gold urn with his bust titled “Enoch” will orbit the Earth for seven years in a sun-synchronous orbit, You can see more of Strachan’s sculptural work, and keep up-to-date on the location of Enoch, on Instagram, what an amazing sculpture it really is.


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