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art, artist, Cup Drawings, exhibit, Flatiron Building, Gwyneth Leech, Hypergraphia, Mark Butkus photo
Gwyneth Leech’s cups runneth over at Studio in the Prow at the Flatiron.
In the windowed prow of the historic Flatiron Building on Fifth Avenue hangs more than 600 repurposed paper coffee cups. Hypergraphia: The Cup Drawings is a temporary art exhibit by Gwyneth Leech that concludes its spellbinding run on February 18, 2012. This installation is truly a work in progress as you can watch the artist in action Tuesdays through Saturdays between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. as Gwyneth adds to her collection of hand-drawn cups of art.
Her work makes me imagine how one would feel during that elusive and illusive passage of time that they describe as “your life flashing in front of you.” On the contrary I don’t think that those last moments of life and entry into the unknown “afterlife” are one “flash” but rather a slow surreal glide through long forgotten random memories, people and events. The actual containers, here the coffee cups, are, as each person’s faculties of memory, sight, sound etc,, the same. But it is their individual translation, perception and on going experience seen through the different patterns and colors that makes the whole installation seemingly so simple yet in reality intrinsically complex and personal. Imagine each cup representing something to do with your life, At some we stop, look, examine and remember with a smile or a shudder, some we avoid altogether, others surprise us and most we see in a new light for the first time……….. now that time has run out.