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Carved relief sculpture from Mahabalipuram,India c. 7th century.
Vedic sculpture depicting an Amanita muscaria mushroom associated with the Vishnu, one of the many gods that used and speak of Soma in the Vedic tradition.
Image Found: www.mushroomstone.com/somaintheamericas.htm
About the Artist: Richard Whiteley
As a boy in Canberra, Australia, Richard Whiteley kept himself awake during long sermons at church by watching light stream through stained-glass windows across the marble floor.
Born in 1963, Whiteley struggled academically and left high school at 16. “I knew this was an important moment, but I could see no future for a dyslexic kid in this space,” he says. “I felt in my bones I needed to get out and work with my hands.”
He spent the next three years as an apprentice in a stained-glass workshop. “Being out of high school so young and being in a professional climate working on commissions and in a trade industry shaped my sense of a hands-on material practice,” Whiteley says. “Working with the material as ideas develop is still important to me.”
Whiteley’s decision to leave high school early and take charge of how he would learn proved to be a good one. He went on to study with glass visionaries such as Klaus Moje, and Stanislav Libenský and Jaroslava Brychtová (whose work is also in this building). He earned a graduate degree in sculpture from the University of Illinois. Whiteley is now the head of the Glass Workshop in the School of Art at the Australian National University in Canberra, which he finds ironic, given how his education began.
Glass Terms
Stained Glass
The generic name for decorative windows made of pieces of colored glass fitted into cames and set in iron frames. Strictly speaking, the term is inaccurate because, in addition to glass colored by staining, glaziers used, and continue to use, glass colored throughout by metallic oxide, glass colored by flashing, and glass decorated with enamel.
The Details
•Title: Soma
•Maker(s): Richard Whiteley
•Accession Number: 2010.6.18
•Place Made: Australia, Australian Capital Territory, Canberra
•Dimensions:
oOverall Dimensions:
Height: 177.8 cm
Width: 62.9 cm
Depth: 45.1 cm
•Date: 2008
•Technique: Kiln-Cast, Cut, Ground, Polished
•Materials: Kiln-Cast Glass, Steel
Interpretive Text
“The material qualities of glass—transparency and translucency—are the agents within the work that create the dialogue between voids and solids,” Richard Whiteley says about Soma. Layers of solid and void, density and color are activated by light in this industrial form. Whiteley adds that he builds his forms “from the inside out; voids are ordered first and external structures are built to encapsulate these spaces.”
The Studio at 20
The Studio has been a starting point for emerging artists and an incubator for new work by established artists since 1996. To celebrate 20 years, we’re highlighting works in the Museum’s permanent collection created by artists who have taught or who have been artists in residence at The Studio. Pieces by this artistic community can be found in the Glass Collection Galleries, where they are identified by the Studio at 20 symbol.
Stopped for Del Taco breakfast after a 30 mile ride.
Frame:
Soma Smoothie ES
Fork/Headset:
Surly Pacer/Chris King
Crankset/Bottom Bracket:
Dura Ace 7800/Ultegra
Pedals:
Speedplay zero play
Drivetrain/Cog/Chainring/Chain:
Dura Ace 7800/ Ultegra 10 speed chain
Derailleurs/Shifters:
Dura 7800 RD/Dura Ace FD R9100/ Ultegra ST-6700 STI Shifters 10spd Double
Handlebars/Stem:
Ritchey/Thomson X2
Saddle/Seatpost:
Brooks Swift/Thomson Elite Setback
Brakes:
Paul Components Racer Mediums
Front Wheel/Hub/Tire:
H Plus Son/Chris King Classic/ IRC Roadlite tubeless
Rear Wheel/Hub/Tire:
H Plus Son/Chris King Classic/ IRC Roadlite tubeless
Accessories:
Arundel cages, Quadlock out front mount
Soma Rush 49cm Track frame. Chromed straight blade fork. Sugino messenger crank and TA 44t chain ring. Cadence double toe straps, Vittoria Randonneur rear tire. Tange/Ird interloc cartridge bearing headset, Fsa ti bottom bracket. Sealed bearing hubs, light weight double walled rims. Nitto bars designed by Jitensha Studios.
Distillery District, Toronto.
My dad and I split some chocolate sorbet and some Madagascar vanilla gelato....The sorbet was incredibly rich, dark chocolate. I will dream about that stuff!
Everyone there seemed to be enjoying themselves immensely.
View from the Soma Gompa next to the Namgyal monsatery, looking at the Stok Range. This gompa looked to be in much worse shape than it appeared from down below.
Soma é um trabalho monumental de Carsten Höller. As fotos foram realizadas na Hamburger Bahnhof, onde a instalação foi montada.
A obra é uma tentativa fantástica de produzir soma, a bebida sagrada do hinduísmo. Citada em vários trechos dos livros sagrados, o líquido daria aos humanos vida eterna, felicidade e o poder de vitória. Ou seja: faria com que todo humano que a bebesse virasse um deus.
Nos textos sagrados, há indícios de que a soma é feita a partir de uma mistura de plantas. Mais tarde, por volta dos loucos 1968, estudos do banqueiro e pesquisador amador americano Robert Gordon Wasson indicavam que a base da soma passava por cogumelo - o famoso Amanita muscaria, aquele vermelho com bolas brancas. Segundo Wasson, o fungo teria que ser filtrado pela urina para se tornar o soma.
A experiência de Höller consiste em criar um ambiente dividido em duas partes, para poder gerar um efeito comparativo entre os dois lados. Ele fornece os fungos para as renas e depois recolhe sua urina. O líquido, então, é testado em canários, ratos de laboratório e moscas. Na fase final, o líquido poderá ser bebido por humanos.
O catálogo da exposição traz um relatório da pesquisa de Höller, ele mesmo um engenheiro agrônomo.
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Russell finally gave AJ these SOMA cubes he bought her about a year ago. At first she wasn't sure about them, but after dinner, she started shouting "Uss-ah! Abby!" (Russell, help me!) when he was in the other room.