Good Luck LUBA

This investigation of LUBA and public art has been intresting. I think I'm going to make a new blog just for sights seen and photos i've taken when inspired. This blog kept me sane and helped me figure things out. It also gave me a chance to post photos of public art in the community (my version of it at least)

stuff I saw in New Paltz today that I liked

Enough said.

I just thought this was beautiful and tragic


Lint spewing out the vent onto the ground



I just thought this was a strange juxtaposition, that we see everyday but never notice.




Hannah Wilke!

Kara Atlas calls me dot, also reminds me of yayoi Kusama

mountain climbing

Awosting falls,





I was thinking about the mountains and how much my boyfriend likes to hike and how when i leave new paltz for the very last time there will be no reason to come back. Then I rembered this picture and thought LUBA looked like a mountain you could climb from a certain angle and than made me think of hiking in the new paltz mountains.I don't necessary like to hike but ill do it when he comes to see me or when he used to live here. I has a bad experience with saft 2a but i just wasn't prepared. I looks at the pictures of the awosking falls and remembering being there and it is really beautiful and so is LUBA so they connect to me.

uninspired

I have been looking for LUBA everywhere but haven't found her. That's why I haven't written in a few days. I went to queens this past weekend thinking I would see LUBA in my home town and She wasn't there. I'm uninspired without her. Ive looking at my pictures of LUBA and thinking of what she reminds me of but for some reason I can't think of anything. I need to talk a walk in the woods

The Luba people

Luba

Location: The Luba people (who are also called the Baluba) live in the forests and savannas of a large area of the southern Congo.

Language: The different groups of the Luba people speak different but closely related languages. Mostly because the different groups of the Luba people are of different origins.

History: At one time, in the sixteenth and seventeenth century most of the Luba people were ruled by a paramount chief called the Bulopwe or Balopwe. Now that has changed and they do not have a central ruler. They have formed small independent chiefdoms. These were always around but it wasn't until after the seventeenth century that the majority of the Luba people lived in independent chiefdoms.

The Luba people tell the history of their tribe and people by using an object called a memory board. A memory board is made of beads and uses differnt color beads for the different Tribes or people. Not everyone is told how to read or interpret the memory board.

Daily Life: The Luba hunt, fish, gather, keep livestock and farm, mostly maize and cassava. They live in small villages that have only one long street with rectangular huts on both sides. The Luba people worship a supreme being and natural-spirits. They believe that when something bad happens to a person it happens because of something bad that that person did in the past.

Best Known Feature: The Luba are great wood carvers, especially of ceremonial axes, head rests and anthropomorphical figures. The Chiefs and royals carry staffs that explain how they became what they are and their relationship with the sacred land.

Though this page has been carefully researched, the author does not claim expertise on the Luba.

Please send questions, comments, and corrections to emuseum@mnsu.edu and include the URL.

If you are Luba, your feedback is much appreciated.

Sources:

Luba. Britannica.com, http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9049210

The Luba Tribe. http://www.msad54.k12.me.us/MSAD54Pages/MCSS/SmithStuart/African%20Tribe/the_luba_tribe.htm

Author: Lucian Young

This just makes so much sense to me. luba people. LUBA to me is an extension of a person. LUBA belongs in the forest, the Luba people were woodcarvers and LUBA is carved from wood. I dont know is Ursula was connecting to the Luba people when she created this piece but I don't know how could couldn't, its so apparent. Finding this just made me so happy

definition of LUBA

Luba may refer to:

• Slavic origin feminine name which means "someone who has love"

this just makes sense to me. I want to wrap my arms around LUBA. I connected to LUBA when I saw it. I smelt the wood and thought of being a kid and being in the wood shop with my dad, My dad can build anything, (Hes the set designer/builder for the local playhouse in our town) and I remember loving being down in the basement with my dad. and of course I love my dad. I guess I think LUBA reminds me of my dad but I think LUBA is a she. BUT my dad is full of love. my dad is also full of worry. I feel that LUBA is strong but full of worry therefor she need all those individual blocks to hold her up not to mention the spider leg to keep her balanced. LUBA has love for everyone who looks at her that is why she has so many building blocks to keep her together, she has enough to share.

LUBA and the SPIDER

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The cast peices of LUBA remind me of Louise Bourgeois spiders. The legs are so delicate and fearful. Walking arould them make me nervous and seeing something like that on LUBA made me feel the same way. Despite the fact that LUBA doesn't make me feel that way at all. LUBA makes me feel the exact oposite of the spider. But the caste bronze brings me back to the first time I saw a Bourgeois spider. And how it freaks me out when a a find a big spider in my house and I hate to kill it but I dont want to think about it crawling all over me with those thin legs. I just got chills. I feel like they are LUBAs legs keeping her up. Balancing her. Without them she may lean to one side and topple over.