January 2010
11 posts
Directions
Inspirations
Bas Jan Ader:
Incredibly moving performance-based videos
Songlines:
Aboriginal belief, land must be sung into existence
“Aboriginal Creation myths tell of the legendary totemic being who wandered over the continent in the Dreamtime, singing out the name of everything that crossed their path- birds, animals, plants, rocks, waterholes- and so singing the world into...
Possible Projects
Interactive map/ epic poem
A while ago, I sketched out an idea to create a fantastical map of Switzerland that would be accompanied by an epic poem, an Ode to Switzerland. I traced over a found map with paint pens and wrote text in the margins.
I want to expand on this idea so the finalized text will be an epic poem that is slightly based on Dante’s Divine Comedy and Chatwin’s In...
Strengths/Weaknesses
Strengths: Writing about ideas, post-mortem reflections, understanding of inspirations, research, exploration, know when something works
Weaknesses: Think to much, don’t do enough sketches/iterations, freak myself out, anxiety about deadlines and doing “well”, can’t visualize what is works (have to see it) but never get to that stage because I’m still thinking about all of the possible things...
What is this thing that keeps me awake at night?
I am currently struggling with a personal dissonance. I cannot reconcile the me that is the wanderer, the nomad, and the me that is the collector, the hoarder of things. These two me’s are the Abel and the Cain, the hunter-gatherer and the agriculturalist, the free-loader and the capitalist. You Win and the (Physical) Suspension of Disbelief reflected on this issue through the use of...