Name Them-They Fly Better - Christopher Ornelas

Name Them-They Fly Better

Pat Hammond's Theory of Aerodynamics
Buch | Softcover
96 Seiten
2017
Trinity University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-59534-819-7 (ISBN)
19,90 inkl. MwSt
One artist's life transforming the mundane to the magical
Pat Hammond is not your ordinary artist. In fact, she doesn’t even consider herself an artist. She takes everyday objects, such as spinning tops and jars of cicada shells, and infuses them with new meaning and hope. Through humor and personalization, she uses insignificant and unconventional objects to illuminate a “grand truth” about the world, and even about herself.

Author Christopher Ornelas found out about Hammond through her remarkable kite collection—hundreds of kites amassed over twenty years. Hammond’s kites, which have been featured at the Smithsonian and the Modern Museum of Art, were gathered from every corner of the world, including Guatemala, Korea, and Polynesia.

Hammond also designs her own kites, drafting ideas and sketches for numerous creations she has dreamed of flying. While many of these kites have never made it into the air, they demonstrate her untamed creativity: a corset on a string titled “Of Corset Flies,” a kite made of chicken wire titled “Flew de Coop.” Hammond’s idiosyncratic humor soars beyond her kites, and as Ornelas quickly discovers, they are just a stroke on the canvas of an artistic life that includes troves of trinkets laced with whimsy and beautiful intentions, all displayed in Hammond’s home in San Antonio, Texas.

Hammond’s love for the unexpected and her fascination with science and physics are contagious. She is passionate about bees and collecting honey, and her shelves upon shelves of books touch on subjects as varied at Goya and Asimov. From her assortment of animal specimens (bird wings, butterflies, beetles) to crates of small spinning tops (she makes hundreds of them from round metal discs and matchstick spindles), every item is an exploration illustrating the heart of an artist and the legacy of a true free spirit.

With a foreword by poet and friend Naomi Shihab Nye and intimate photographs of Hammond’s home and collections, Name Them—They Fly Better offers a portrait of a woman who has sought to transform each moment into a creative act.

Naomi Shihab Nye was born to a Palestinian father and an American mother and lived in Palestine, Jerusalem, and San Antonio, Texas, where she studied at Trinity University. She is the author of numerous poetry books, including You and Yours, 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East, Fuel, and Red Suitcase. Her honors include awards from the Texas Institute of Letters and the International Poetry Forum, the Carity Randall Prize, the Academy of American Poets’ Lavan Award, and four Pushcart Prizes. She has been a Lannan fellow, a Guggenheim fellow, and a Witter Bynner fellow, and she was elected a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2010. She has traveled to the Middle East and Asia for the U.S. Information Agency three times, promoting international goodwill through the arts. She lives in San Antonio.

Erscheinungsdatum
Nachwort Robert Hammond
Vorwort Naomi Shihab Nye
Zusatzinfo Illustrations
Verlagsort San Antonio
Sprache englisch
Maße 167 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Kunst / Musik / Theater Fotokunst
Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Freizeit / Hobby Kreatives Gestalten
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Sport
Technik Architektur
ISBN-10 1-59534-819-0 / 1595348190
ISBN-13 978-1-59534-819-7 / 9781595348197
Zustand Neuware
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