Day’s End
Day’s End, 2021. Rendering.
“OUR STREETS ARE CALENDARS containing who we were and who we will be next,” wrote Colson Whitehead in a November 2001 essay about a New York still in the turbid wake of a different airborne cataclysm. “We see ourselves in this city every day when we walk down the sidewalk and catch our reflections in store windows, seek ourselves in this city each time we reminisce about what was there 5, 10, 40 years ago, because all our old places are proof that we were here.” Whitehead’s essay is perhaps most famous for its charming epigraphic rubrics for city citizenship (“You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now”), but, at its core, it conducts a reckoning with the unique and personal aftermath of physical, material loss, while offering a token of consolation just as unique and personal: the lost city, forever fixed in individual memory a place we might carry with us and move through wh
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Phoenix in the Courtyard: Total Arts hosts show in new space
17 Jan 2021
Features Writer
The current show at Total Arts at Courtyard, Dubai, titled “Second Life” (Jan. 9 Mar. 9), is an exhibition of repurposed objects, artworks and installations, displayed in the new space of Total Arts. It marks the second life of the former furniture store at the Courtyard.
“Second Life” acts as a reminder to reconsider our surroundings from space to materials, and act on them to serve a better purposeful function visually and conceptually.
The exhibition contains artworks and design objects of various sizes, addressing environmental consciousness, preservation and sustainability as their focal point, whether in the choice of medium or concept.