Timothy Ely’s exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Culture, Timothy C. Ely; Line of sight, is a collection of beautiful handcrafted manuscripts, which are the art objects that Ely creates. Each book is full of detail, there are diagrams, maps, pictures, found objects, and Ely’s own made up language filling each book. Ely draws inspiration from biology, chemistry, astronomy, ancient Egypt, alchemy, science fiction and many other things to create one of a kind books. Each book seems to be reminiscing of sacred texts from hundreds of years ago, and at the same time they look like the are from the distant future. Ely says, “My books are atlases of arcane territories and theoretical futures.”
While I would highly advise going to this exhibit there were a number of things that bothered me about the concepts within the art. From what I gathered by going to the museum, and reading the wall texts and the provided literature I got the impression that each book has a theme that it focuses on. However, without being able to flip through the books, or have pictures of each of the pages, or additional texts on each of the individual books the viewer is unable to see how this done within the books or what the themes of any of the books were.
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