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Miwa Matrayek’s glorious visions

by | Nov 1, 2010 | Art, Bits of Gold, Performance Art

Prepare to be entranced….

Performed in Oxford, England in July 2010 by Miwa Matreyek.

Matrayek walks behind a screen to become an integral part of the moving landscape of dreams that her magical “Myth and Infrastructure” performance creates.

Using projected video imagery combined with the silhouette of her shadow, music and the magic of imagination, she curls up and becomes the island in a creation myth, surrounded by water and a skyful of stars. Fish and flights of birds, trees and a polar bear… waves wash past and a city rises around her and she walks gently through the sleeping city scape… a totally entrancing performance and a name to remember!

Miwa Matreyek is an animator, designer, and multi-media artist working in Los Angeles. She creates animated short films as well as works that integrate animation and live performance/installation via projection. She gradueated from CalArt’s Experimental Animation program in 2007, and explores the ways in which animation can be taken to new levels by combining it with the body in space, which enables a 3 dimensional immersion in intricate tapestries of illusion. Very well done.

Her website is at SemiHemisphere.com:

Touchdown Jesus – Lighting Strike – Ohio

by | Jun 16, 2010 | Art, Bits of Humour, Funny Colours, Sculpture, Tapestry, Travellers Tales

A six-story statue of Jesus Christ in Monroe, Ohio was struck by lightning and burned to the ground, leaving a blacked steel skeleton.

Insurance companies are calling it “An Act of God”

The “King of Kings” statue had become one of southwest Ohio’s most familiar landmarks having stood at the evangeliocal Solid Rock Church since 20004. The church and statue are next to the Interstate 75 highway in Monroe, just north of Cincinatti.

The statue was made of plastic foam and fiberglass over a steel frame, showing the torso of Jesus with upraised arms. It was nicknamed “The Touchdown Jesus” because the pose resembled a referee signalling a touchdown.

The same nickname is used for a famous mural of the resurected Jesus that overlooks the Notre Dame football stadium.

Lightning struck the statue about 11.15pm on Monday, setting it on fire – damage from the fire was estimated at $700,000 with another $300,000 damage caused to an adjacent ampitheater.