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About Roy Staab
- Roy Staab
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
- Sculptor/artist has installed works in Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica, Finland, France, Italy, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and the United States. Awarded: LIFE TIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD from the Museum of Wisconsin Art, 2012 ARTIST OF THE YEAR from the Milwaukee Arts Board, Efroymson Fellowship, Joan Mitchell Foundation award, Wisconsin Arts Board Award, Gottlieb Foundation Award, National Endowment for the arts, Japanese Creative Artist Fellowship, Pollack/Krasner Grant, New York State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts
What a great choice of music for the video: Erik Satie's Gymnopédie No. 1. The song is likely inspired by the J.P. Contamine de Latour poem "Les Antiques" ("The Ancients"), which includes the lines
ReplyDeleteOblique et coupant l'ombre un torrent éclatant
Ruisselait en flots d'or sur la dalle polie
Où les atomes d'ambre au feu se miroitant
Mêlaient leur sarabande à la gymnopédie
[Slanting and shadow-cutting a flickering eddy
Trickled in gusts of gold on the shiny flagstone
Where the atoms of amber in the fire mirroring themselves
Mingled their sarabande with the gymnopaedia]
-- the poem and the song and the sculpture all evoke similar feelings for me. Thanks, Roy!