Episode 59: Sarah Sze's Fallen Sky (2021)
“As an artist, I was thinking about our effort, our desire, our continual longing to make meaning of the world around us through materials.”
Fallen Sky, a half-recessed bowl, like a moon map etched into a hillside at Storm King Art Center, is the first permanent installation at the lush Hudson Valley sculpture park in over a decade. Its stainless-steel pillars are created to look like stone and mirror, ancient ruins that reflect the everchanging sky. And by diving into this exhilarating contradiction between permanence and ephemera, materials and time, we can explore how installation artist Sarah Sze makes us pay attention to the worlds we occupy, both under our feet and inside our heads.
This episode was produced with support from Storm King Art Center.
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Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Plate Glass,” “Leatherbound,” “The Onyx,” “Silent Ocean,” “ZigZag Heart,” “Curious Case,” “On Top of It”
Evan Blanch, “Where The Streets Have No Name (Instrumental)” (U2 cover)
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