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From: Ron
Category: Art
Date: 08 November 2005
Darren Almond is in the second room, it is dark and there is music playing, on one side a screen with a video of his grand mother, another with some dancers dancing, and on another a windmill turning (it is a windmill made up of lights in the dark). Entering this room was calming, and pleasurable, not painful and demanding as much video art can be. So I thought may be it is good that it is not demanding, and painful, that perhaps it gives something to us with its music and romance. So it momentarily pleased me, but then I thought is this all art can be-something that is vaguely calming, a sedative, relaxation, I could get this from the TV. It reminded me of Sam Taylor-Wood’s dancing man which as a young art student I had been touched by, I found it moving, but perhaps that was my state of mind at the time with my thoughts on humanity and its desperation. I also suspected that it might in large way be the work of the composer that touched me the most, and like any film makers the music can pull any kind of feeling from an image, I am not questioning that there is art in putting them together. But to what effect.
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