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Wednesday
Jun202012

Are We Still in Kansas?

Perched on the corner of the 7th floor of Jacobs Hall above the busy artery through Warren College, the 15-by-18-foot house looks, indeed, like it came crashing down from above. (Philipp Scholz Rittermann / June 14, 2012) (click photo for larger image)Artist Do Ho Suh has created a work that will really leave you asking that question? Two of my lifelong learners--Jerri and Darryl Thomson--came upon this work in their travels and passed the article along to me. I’m sure you’ll all enjoy it.

“Ever since Do Ho Suh left his native South Korea in 1991 to study at the Rhode Island School of Design, he has made displacement — cultural, physical, psychological, architectural — one of the central themes of his work.”

Read More, in an interesting article by Leah Ollman, Special to the Los Angeles Times...