Post by jonsdigs on Apr 16, 2009 3:51:03 GMT -5
What rocks tell us about our past, present, and future
An Ocean of Stone
by Laura Stokes
Charleston City Paper (SC)
"Mark's Passage Wolftever Cave" by Jeff Whetstone, winner of the Gibbes Museum of Art's annual factor Prize
Post-Pleistocene
On display through July 19
Gibbes Museum of Art
135 Meeting St.
(843) 722-2706
www.gibbesmuseum.org
When we're young, the threat of mortality escapes our effervescent minds. The older we get, the more we notice how fleeting time becomes. We begin to search for ways to make a mark on the world.
Some seek fame and fortune while others pursue knowledge and enlightenment. Most explore more mundane ways of recording their lives. Post-Pleistocene, Jeff Whetstone's photography exhibit at the Gibbes Museum of Art, provides a glimpse into our culture's search for immortality.
Whetstone, the winner of the 2008 Factor Prize, awarded every year by the Gibbes to an outstanding Southern artist, is a cultural explorer. These large chromogenic prints of cave graffiti document a network of caverns in Tennessee and Alabama. Miners looking for saltpeter, the main ingredient of gunpowder, discovered the caves during the Civil War. Whetstone grew up near one of them, and he wasn't the first to explore it as a teenager: There are 160 years' worth of graffiti scrawled onto the cave walls.
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An Ocean of Stone
by Laura Stokes
Charleston City Paper (SC)
"Mark's Passage Wolftever Cave" by Jeff Whetstone, winner of the Gibbes Museum of Art's annual factor Prize
Post-Pleistocene
On display through July 19
Gibbes Museum of Art
135 Meeting St.
(843) 722-2706
www.gibbesmuseum.org
When we're young, the threat of mortality escapes our effervescent minds. The older we get, the more we notice how fleeting time becomes. We begin to search for ways to make a mark on the world.
Some seek fame and fortune while others pursue knowledge and enlightenment. Most explore more mundane ways of recording their lives. Post-Pleistocene, Jeff Whetstone's photography exhibit at the Gibbes Museum of Art, provides a glimpse into our culture's search for immortality.
Whetstone, the winner of the 2008 Factor Prize, awarded every year by the Gibbes to an outstanding Southern artist, is a cultural explorer. These large chromogenic prints of cave graffiti document a network of caverns in Tennessee and Alabama. Miners looking for saltpeter, the main ingredient of gunpowder, discovered the caves during the Civil War. Whetstone grew up near one of them, and he wasn't the first to explore it as a teenager: There are 160 years' worth of graffiti scrawled onto the cave walls.
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