fall always tends to bring out the insane in me.  it makes me want to drink 5 cups of winter-spiced/spiked coffee, listen to music with harpsichords and glockenspiels, and buy a puppy and dress it in tartan so i can walk it down 5th avenue.  luckily for you and me, i forewent the puppy idea and stuck to drinking 5 cups of espresso a day, probably accounting for the fact that i couldn’t sleep last night.  at the very least, it got me up and at ‘em at the break of dawn, taking a stroll down to the brooklyn museum on a lovely fall morning to see the gilbert and george exhibit.

talk about a british invasion.

gilbert and george met at central st. martins over 40 years ago and have been together ever since making extraordinary things.  most of their art deals with scenes/images/issues that are not more than a few mile-radius from their home in east london.

when they first started out, they were using traditional photography media but from early on, used the grid-format as the structural framework.  they often use themselves as subjects, calling themselves “living sculptures” and are usually seen in their suits-and-ties, or work outfits as they call them.

they now have progressed to digital media, and actually have one of the most powerful graphic work stations in the UK in order to process their huge works of art. whoo! technology…

and this video by danish artist jesper just.