Loving the Work of >> Morgan O'Hara
Chef’s assistant Jojo Sullamoff
while peeling a cucumber
Yatagan Kebab House, New York City
2 November 1995
Movement of the hands of
pianist
while performing the first movement allegro con brio of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4
28 October 2001
Above:
Movement of the hands of
Conductor Riccardo Chailly
while conducting the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Mahler’s Symphony No 4.
first movement
10 February 2000
It’s interesting when two people doing the same activity are compared– above and below, two conductors conducting two different pieces — are they different because of the piece of music, or because of their personal style of conducting?
Movement of the hands of
Composer Pierre Boulez
while conducting the
in Stravinsky’s Petrouchka /
13 March 2000
Apparently, conducting and lecturing require similar hand movements…
Movement of the hands of
Dr. S. J. Schmidt while lecturing
Glarus, Switzerland
7 March 1999
Her working process– multiple pens in each hand.
THEN, I discovered her installations — blown up abstractions of the drawings. SO COOL.
Galleria O’artoteca
Milano, Italia
left
right: Quentin Crisp lecturing
flat black acrylic on white wall
flat black acrylic on white wall
black and vermillion calligraphy ink on rice paper
flat black acrylic on white wall
Left: Amiri Bakara reading his poetry
Right: Ishioka Toyomi carving cedar
wall drawing: hand movement of 3 Taiko drummers performing
Teatro Sociale di
Italia
I don’t know what this one is of, but I like that she took it to sculpture too… I think if she continues to get less and less literal, these are going to keep getting more interesting.
I think if she keeps doing this, it could be really interesting to see comparisons of hand movements between cultures. Would lecturers in one country be more emphatic with their hands than another? Would musical styles require very different hand movements?
Morgan O’Hara website here.
