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By the time we arrived at the Bay of Fundy I had realized what a bore and a cliche I am. The earth artists had arrived sometime before doing what Reinhard Bohme had done so well, originally, years before. Reinhard was, then, a late modernist. The concept was; art is temporary, an action without permanent objectivity, revolutionary, not marketable, and, above all else; totally original.
I didn't feel that bad, I have boring company on the beach but; post-modern is exemplified by a return to traditional means and "originality" isn't a stricture encompassing concept, execution, and media. When Reinhard was a modern he used vegetation, twigs and flower pedals as well as earths and ice. Balancing rocks was only a part of his art.
Acrylic is the advanced paint medium of the post-modern era. It can be used like oil but, it also has new characteristics. Oil cannot do what acrylic can. Acrylic is, in the trans-generation artistic timeline of the past 600 years, an unexplored new medium.
The engineers have it over artists with the "form follows function" modern architectural concept. Modern art, modern architecture, and modern engineering parted company.
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Take art out of the modern formula and the resulting structure is cheaper to make. Form followed the bottom line.
It rained all the way from New Brunswick to Quebec. At a commercial campsite named something like Les rayons du soleil. It began to pour.
I've missed recording the transient communities of the road. I took a snap when the rain abated a bit.
The RV community is another culture I've taken for granted. In the extreme there are "full timers" who live on the road. It's like ignoring the eco-tourists out of the landscape and the infrastructure that gets us there.
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It rained all the way to Quebec. I bucked headwinds, slowing us down with the added wind and water resistance of +50 kilometers an hour bring the cruising speed down to, on average, around 80-90. Wind and hills and fog.
We "rested" at a Quebec rest stop. On the pediment supported by post and lintel is a huge, "installed", "site specific", panel in what media I cannot begin to know. It is contemporary. Like nothing I have seen before. The main thing is; I can put the component parts of the building into the traditional language of architecture. The panel is a pediment decoration like on a Greco-Roman; neo or classical building but not triangular. |
The building, which is a fine example of post-modern architecture (new yet classic in human scale) is constructed of the finest contemporary materials and engineering. It contains a restaurant, a gift shop with snacks, toilets, and (of course); an art gallery. In the gallery are paintings with price tags.
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