one of ian's self portraits, holi, drawn after our travels in india in 2007
i’d love to throw some colored powder on some folks today. see everyone drenched in rain and color….
holi holi holi
Posted on March 9, 2012 at 12:28 pm
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Magnificent.
Is this “Holi” similar to/same as the one shown in his “The Opposite of Death” show at TC/SF?
I have hot seen the images from the show, but I do have Ian’s notes that were made available to the gallery, and to the gallery goers, for that show — including those for “Holi.” To read his words is to quake and marvel [hel-loooow!].
The notes for “Holi” begin: “Holi is the name of a festival in India where complete and total chaos ensues. Colors of raw pigment and buckets of ink are thrown at everyone and everything”..[two remarkable paragraphs later, Ian ends with...]..”Either we can choose it or India will make us see it that way.”
Soooo honored to have these notes he wrote resting here in my lap, and soooo happy that myneff has YOU and your babies all bundled together in HIS lap.
xoxox
SXSW for you guys?
Thinking of you…xoxox
Happy, Happy, Holi love! I embrace the idea that bonfires and buckets of paint have the capacity to turn evil into good, winter into spring, and bridge the gaps that divide us. Yep. I’m going with that! This is one of the first of Ian’s wonderful pieces that I remember feeling absolutely sure that I could reach out and peel the paint off the paper and pluck the brooch off to adorn a jaunty hat. Much love to all. Hope you survive/enjoy SXSW.
i’m just getting to comments made this long ago? sigh…. ‘holi’ is the very piece from “the opposite of death” show – from right after we returned from india. so cool that you have the notes, flo. i love that piece for so many reasons. i love all of ian’s pieces for so many reasons.
one little tidbit is that the real brooch was my great great aunt katherine’s. (i THINK great great….) i loved seeing it in this piece because her world was so far away from the one we had just experienced in india.
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