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Skinner is more than just an artist who paints psychodellic images of metal band mayhem, he is an event, a personality, a one-stop-shop of the super rad. It is within this personality that we begin to understand Skinner's work, and the detail, time, and focus he puts into everything he produces. We sat down with the artist to talk about his new show at The Shooting Gallery entitled "The Fragile Art of Existence" which explores a new place in the Skinner's body of work.
Read the full interview on Warholian here: www.warholian.com/2011/08/11/skinner-fragile-existence/
Studio photos by Hal Rotter
Opening Night Photos by Michael Cuffe
Hasselblad 500cm | 80mm f2.8 | E100 Converted to b&w
Throwing a little rest and relaxation into my days has proved to be a boon to my existence.
Located int Wawa, Nasugbo, Batangas
Exposure 87
Aperture f/16.0
Focal Length 10 mm
ISO Speed 100
"Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection . . ." -Edward Weston
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
"The very existence of national groupsâtheir history, their memory and their futureârests on their members right to life, but scholars sometimes pay too little attention to assaults on the cultural identities of such groups which often precede physical attacks.
âPlundered Cultures, Stolen Heritageââ Concordia Universityâs contribution to Canadaâs year of Holocaust Remembrance leadershipâ begins the task of filling that gap and integrating our knowledge. Leading experts on the experiences of cultural destruction and mass atrocities suffered by the First Nations, Armenian and Jewish peoples are assembling to discuss the motives of the perpetrators of these assaults, their impact,
and the significance these attacks pose for restitution and reconciliation today.
âPlundered Cultures, Stolen Heritageâ opens a key chapter in multidisciplinary human rights studies integrating research on history, cultural studies and the memory of atrocity. Rather than a competition of suffering between groups, it signifies the determination of scholars to learn from the shared experiences of First Nations, Armenian and Jewish groups for the sake of
all groups confronting crimes against humanity and genocides intended to destroy their national existence."
Animals are a part and parcel of our society. Humans and animals have a great emotional connection with each other. Sometimes we ignore the existence of them but we should always remember that animals plays a very important role in our life and we can make a peaceful world for them.
Welcome to the planet
Welcome to existence
Everyone's here
Everyone's here
Everybody's watching you now
Everybody waits for you now
What happens next?
What happens next?
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened before
Welcome to the fallout
Welcome to resistance
The tension is here
The tension is here
Between who you are and who you could be
Between how it is and how it should be
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened
Maybe redemption has stories to tell
Maybe forgiveness is right where you fell
Where can you run to escape from yourself?
Where you gonna go?
Where you gonna go?
Salvation is here
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened
Today never happened
Today never happened before
Dare You To Move - Switchfoot
teamLab Planets TOKYO: Expanding Three-dimensional Existence in Intentionally Transforming Space - Free Floating, 12 Colors
TIBET: TRANSMIGRATORY EXISTENCE
WHEEL OF TRANSMIGRATORY EXISTENCE
Belief in reincarnation is basic to Buddhism. It is thought that all sentient beings move forever in a cycle of deaths and rebirths unless liberated by spiritual enlightenment. The Wheel of Existence depicts the six realms into which the individual may be born according to the merit or evil of his past lives. This accumulation of past deeds is one's karma.
At the hub of the wheel are shown the three root poisons which bind one to existence and rebirth: ignorance, symbolized as a pig; desire, as a cock; and hatred, as a snake. The band around this circle shows humans moving up to happy rebirths on the left, and being chased down to woeful ones on the right.
The six realms go from the lowest, the hells, hot and cold, through the tortured spirits, animals, humans, demigods, to the highest, that of gods.
The outer circle depicts the twelve conditions in life linking the individual to rebirth.
THE LAST THEOCRATIC GOVERNMNET
THE DALAI LAMA
The Dalai Lama traditionally headed the Tibetan government and embodies Avalokitesvara, Lord of Mercy and guardian spirit of Tibet. Each new Dalai lama was chosen by a search committee aided by an oracle. Because the death of a Dalai Lama was considered simply a movement toward reincarnation into another body, the search committee looked for a young boy who would be revealed as that reincarnation by showing appropriate signs. This boy might be found at any level of society, rich or poor. Once chosen, he came under the tutelage of the assembly of monks, who raised him accordingly. The government meanwhile was headed by an elected regent who ruled until the Dalai Lama reached the age to assume leadership.
'Jam-dPal rGya-mTS'o
THE EIGHTH DALAI LAMA (1758-1805)
Dalai is the Mongolian word for rGya-mTS'o (vast ocean), the name of the Yellow Hat hierarch who converted Altan Khan, Prince of the Turned Mongols, to Buddhism in 1578. The actual first Dalai Lama, Sonam rGya-mTS'o, was at the same time the third Pan-c'en Lama and the incarnation of his two predecessors. He therefore designated the first two Pan-c'en Lamas retroactively as Dalai Lamas, making himself the third.
Under continuing Mongol, and later Manchu, protection the Dalai Lamas held temporal as well as spiritual power in Tibet. Each Dalai Lama is the incarnation of his immediate predecessor and of a long line of spiritual ancestors tracing their lineage back to Avalokitesvara. In the portrait (above) the eighth Dalai Lama is surrounded by spiritual ancestors.
TIBET: MEDITATION
Meditation is at the core of Tibetan Buddhist practice. The meditator seeks to become one with the Buddha-quality personified in the form of a deity. Visualization and concentration to this end are aided by sculptures and paintings of the ideal.
Wherever Buddhism spread, its art went with it. A standardized language of symbols arose, overcoming ordinary language barriers. Forms and styles intended to induce identification and communion with the deities have powerful spiritual and psychic effects on the observer.
Paintings and sculptures serving as temporary abodes of deities confer blessing and protection.
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས
bKra-sis-bDe-legs (pronounced Tashi delek)
"May you have good fortune, happiness, and all blessings."
MANI STONE
Stones inscribed with prayers, piled into cairns or forming walls, are found all over Tibet. The most popular of these prayers is the mantra of Avalokitesvara, Om mani padme Hum--Hail to the jewel in the lotus. Hence the common reference to these stones as mani (jewel) stones. The mantra is repeated as many times as space permits.
ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ