Green That Makes You Want to Crack Your Foot

• Published in: C magazine (1992) no. 158; pp. 46 - 52
• Main Author: Lalonde, Chloë P F
• Format: Magazine Article
• Language: English
• Published: Toronto C the Visual Arts Foundation 01.10.2024
• Subjects: Astrology; Constellations; Names; Sound
• ISSN: 1480-5472; 1923-3795

The names given to these full lunar cycles have been popularized by The Old Farmer's Almanac, which attributes them to Indigenous cosmologies, and colonial American and European sources.1 These vernacular names have been used as a way to keep time, inherently entangled with agriculture. The characteristics of each sign are said to inform developments in human society and culture.2 he current Age of Pisces is characterized by finding solace in the belief in a higher power and the prevalence of religion across societies. In 2024, some say, we are supposed to feel a shift toward the Age of Aquarius, long revered in Western culture that popularized the term for its utopian promise of social progress, advancements in communication, cognition, understanding, freedom, equality, and justice for all. n outlining these periods of time, Western astrology seeks to integrate with the cosmos to understand why everything is the way it is and to predict what will happen. [...]how might an artwork's date, name, and seemingly subjective visual and material language still objectively represent the times? Since the '70s, his pottery takes the forms of plates, bowls, and condom boxes that track gay rights, the HIV/AIDs epidemic, safe sex practices, same-sex marriages, and notable figures who challenged this socio-political progress and who challenged popular culture and his friends.