Comments on: I C U- Julie Weitz http://beefmastermagazine.com/2010/07/30/icu-julie-weitz/ Art Gallery + Project Room Sat, 15 Jan 2011 02:04:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Kapulco http://beefmastermagazine.com/2010/07/30/icu-julie-weitz/comment-page-1/#comment-22 Kapulco Sat, 14 Aug 2010 10:59:48 +0000 http://beefmastermagazine.com/?p=943#comment-22 This has emotional, pure-philosophical and other intellectual integrity (e.g. political). The concept of masking to render anonymous is not new (axiomatic) but what is fresh is to then make the mask anonymous - that is brill. In Viennese masque balls, for example, people were anonymous behind their masks but those masks were distinguished. Here you have sough to (and achieved methinks) double-blending the anonymity. The person has disappeared so completely that (a) one wonders if s/he ever existed and (b) any attempts to discover would, at most, only tell us more about the masks themselves. Given your stated aim: "my investigation into the indistinguishability between self and other" you have certainly succeeded in shedding new dark on the self. It has, indeed, become indistinguishable. These blended-in masks, for me, represent society's cultural imposition - be it from the tyranny of (say) Nazism to the social problem of young girls dangerously-thinning to appear more like celebs. The self has been lost to the degree that even the self's persona is being subsumed. Brill work, Julie. Well done. This has emotional, pure-philosophical and other intellectual integrity (e.g. political). The concept of masking to render anonymous is not new (axiomatic) but what is fresh is to then make the mask anonymous – that is brill. In Viennese masque balls, for example, people were anonymous behind their masks but those masks were distinguished. Here you have sough to (and achieved methinks) double-blending the anonymity. The person has disappeared so completely that (a) one wonders if s/he ever existed and (b) any attempts to discover would, at most, only tell us more about the masks themselves.

Given your stated aim: “my investigation into the indistinguishability between self and other” you have certainly succeeded in shedding new dark on the self. It has, indeed, become indistinguishable. These blended-in masks, for me, represent society’s cultural imposition – be it from the tyranny of (say) Nazism to the social problem of young girls dangerously-thinning to appear more like celebs. The self has been lost to the degree that even the self’s persona is being subsumed.

Brill work, Julie. Well done.

]]> By: AlegraMBL http://beefmastermagazine.com/2010/07/30/icu-julie-weitz/comment-page-1/#comment-21 AlegraMBL Wed, 11 Aug 2010 04:56:10 +0000 http://beefmastermagazine.com/?p=943#comment-21 Interesting to follow your work over the years, to see how this has evolved from your previous masks. Interesting to follow your work over the years, to see how this has evolved from your previous masks.

]]> By: Cat_Tillman http://beefmastermagazine.com/2010/07/30/icu-julie-weitz/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Cat_Tillman Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:14:07 +0000 http://beefmastermagazine.com/?p=943#comment-17 Nice F-ed Up Op Art Good to See Use of line And Color In abstract forms Playing with Shape And perception Of flat space Don't really see Importance Of the Mask Or need of meaning In THAT Or why I should Have to think About THAT But HOWEVER Nice Nice
F-ed Up
Op Art
Good to See
Use of line
And Color
In abstract forms
Playing with Shape
And perception
Of flat space
Don’t really see
Importance
Of the Mask
Or need of meaning
In THAT
Or why I should
Have to think
About
THAT
But
HOWEVER
Nice

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