FotoFriday: Jenny Holzer’s “Wave T”

Last Sunday the NY Times celebrated the 5th Anniversary Issue of it’s Style Magazine with the above image on the cover. Look closely and you’ll see the sea.

The cover was created by one of the art world’s most successful contemporary artists, Jenny Holzer. In reality the image was an art mashup with Holzer finding Cobalt123’s original image on Flickr. Here’s the story.

Holzer is an American conceptual art whose medium is language, or more precisely words. She uses words in all kinds of locations and ways including recently projecting them onto water like the below image from her interesting Projections website.

Here’s a video from Holzer’s recent show, Protect Protect, at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

[YouTube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iHvW3JRQpY]
YouTube – Whitney Focus presents Jenny Holzer: PROTECT PROTECT