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Really good image JMB. It immediately reminded me of this Giacometti sculpture and some text that Rosalind Krauss wrote on it.
Alberto Giacometti, Suspended Ball, 1930-31, plaster and metal
“. . . or destabilization at large in works like suspended ball, where formlessness is to be found in a kind of categorical blurring. For in that object, the sexually suggestive sliding of a cloven ball over a recumbent wedge sets up the activity of a caress between organs whose gender identity is wholly unstable, seeming with each swing of the pendulum to change associations. . . “
juicy
so sweet!
Giacometti animated GIF: “suggestive sliding of a cloven ball over a recumbent wedge”
On second thought I’d rather not see this.
- tom moody — 7/28/07 @ 4:38 am
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