art: alys and feininger

in my final days, i made a big push to go to as many museums as possible.

francis alys

i loved francis alys piece the guards at the ps1. captivating and beautiful. the ps1 is an amazing place and i cant wait to go back. i wish you all could see the piece. essentially, francis choreographs 64 queens guards in the city of london. they are all told to start marching from random points in the city. when two guards run into each other, they are to begin marching in step. when they find another guard they will starting marching with them, and so on as the group grows.  when they form a group of 8 x 8 they are to march to the nearest bridge and disperse. the cinematography is amazing. the camera cut from different wide angle to birds eye, from deep focus to shallow focus. alys also attached camera to the guards themselves, which added another dimension to the piece. alys does not reveal his agenda til the end of the piece. so you watch the piece eating up the beauty of it all and then, when you read what exactly was going on, your mind is blown, so you just have to watch it all over again.

lyonel feininger

i also fell in love with the work of lyonel feininger at the whitney. the breadth of his work was astounding. just take a gander. comics, toys, photography, woodcut. he even taught at the bauhaus.