RiTUAL. A ceremonial act ~ Rites used in the course of worship ~ The performance of ceremonial acts ~ The prescribed form of conducting the ceremony ~ A method of procedure that is followed without variation ~ performance with gestures, words, and objects, often in a sequestered place.
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Dan Rose is a 3-D artist and anthropologist. His artist books have been acquired by the Kislak Center at the Penn Libraries and his books have been sold through Printed Matter, Serpentine Gallery and the London ICA. Melissa Grey and David Morneau of l'Ao have composed music based on his artist book/installation, The DNA-Photon Project. He has exhibited artwork with Rachel Cheetham-Richard in Philadelphia and North Adams, MA. Dan Rose Studio is located in North Kensington. Current work includes 3-D paintings and drawings and several are displayed at the Gramercy Bistro at MassMoCA. Dan is professor emeritus in landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. www.danrose.space
The Four Questions cry out for a ritual asking, day after day, year after year even though it is an artist book. The first question, How should we humans think of ourselves as a whole from this moment forward? suggests that artists, scientists, religious persons, politicians, and all of us should expand our horizons, should ask ourselves who we are, all of us taken together. Perhaps the ritual might turn us into beings more aware of some vast, common destiny.