Hear ye! Hear ye! Come to Arizona Science Center to help design a new castle for the king and queen using one of the greatest building materials of all time — LEGO® bricks! Their majesties have issued a royal proclamation requesting the presence of all aspiring master builders, designers and architects in LEGO Castle Adventure.
Builders of all ages are invited to explore, build and play in LEGO Castle Adventure! In this exhibit, kids and their families are transported to a LEGO kingdom where they can become master castle builders. In LEGO Castle Adventure, visitors can construct castles, learn about real-world castles and their building secrets, and plan their ideal castle’s defenses. Families can even explore the inside of the royal castle, test their fortress designs with a catapult, spot a dragon and climb a battlement wall.
Binh Danh:
In the Eclipse of Angkor
Binh Danh's interest in science and photographic technique led him to the discovery and invention of what Danh termed the chlorophyll print, a unique process for transferring photographic images onto the surface of leaves by the use of photosynthesis. This process is as important to Danh’s work as the imagery itself. He states, “The histories I search for are the hidden stories embedded in the landscape”.
Danh's stories are memorials, whether portraits of executed Vietnamese and Cambodian victims of war or images of the Buddha. Cast on the surface of a leaf to observe death and convey its influence on the living, each piece is both reverent memory and a renewal. His work is especially timely because of the recent trials of senior Khmer Rouge commandants who were responsible for the torture and killing of thousands of people in the Tuol Sleng prison.
Angkor Wat is a temple complex at Angkor, Cambodia, built for the king Suryavarman II in the early 12th century as his state temple and capital city. As the best-preserved temple at the site, it is the only one to have remained a significant religious center since its foundation—first Hindu, dedicated to Vishnu, then Buddhist.
The exhibition will draw from Danh's series Iridescence of Life and Memory of Tuol Sleng. Also included are unique Daguerreotypes created from Danh's photographs of Buddhist monks and the landscape of ancient Cambodian temples. These Daguerreotype images create a dialog with historic portraits of executed prisoners and sites from the Killing Fields, the genocide carried out by the Khmer Rouge.
This great sense of storytelling in the work of Binh Danh not only communicates his exploration into the worn-torn history and memory of his native country of Vietnam, but also his interest in science and the interconnection of matter. This path of thought leads to a shared interest with the viewer in the act of transformation, both physically and spiritually; a notion that invokes the past and comments on the way actions continually shape the future, a continuum that presents itself with poetic exploration in each body of his work.
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