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1st LOG entry (Fayum)

I’m keeping this specific LOG not to share what I think or create, or whatever it is I’m doing on my blog, but to collect my findings in this journey through art (whatever that may be) I’m on in a structured manner. Writing this entry with it’s sentences filled with uncertainty and vague statements it becomes even more clear to me how much needed this is.

To start off I looked up the word ‘Fayum’ in Google, the first hit was this Wikipedia page.

I’ ve only heard this term a few hours before writing this post, what I know now is what I heard this evening and what I’m reading now. In short Fayum is a  modern term for a type of realistic painted portraits on wooden boards attached to mummies from Roman Egypt (Funerary mask). They belong to the tradition of panel painting, one of the most highly regarded forms of art in the Classical world. In fact, the Fayum portraits are the only large body of art from that tradition to have survived. (source Wikipedia)

That is all for now, here are some examples.

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Fijn Snerthert en gelukkig Nieuwjaar

SNERTHERT

click photo to enlarge.

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First evaluation

IMG_0185

Click picture to see the set on Flickr.

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Just legs

Photo by Yu Song

Photo by Yu Song

For this post I just wanted to show legs hence the name Just legs, but for some reason it is not possible to post just an image in a post and make it look good.

So now you are stuck with this piece of text telling you that what you see here is just legs and for some reason this doesn’t seem right.

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What stuff is made of: choices and connections

Basically there are 2 things that stuff is made of, these two things are; choices and connections. I realized this while struggling through the creation of a new work.

To create something you’ll have to make the right choices. These choices can be functional (what do you want it to do?), technical (will this construction work) or mentally (Does this choice make any sense?)

Connections work in the same way they can be functional (connect a pole to a plate of steel to create a shovel) Technical (In case of the shovel, the how the connection between the wood of the pole and the steel of the blade is best made) and also a mental connection (How does the shovel connect to its surroundings?) For these connections to make sense they have to be made in the right place and time, so question the where, the when and most importantly the why!

The connections you make in a design, writing, artwork or in life have to make sense in context of time and place. This is how you probably recognize a bad decision, the connections would be all wrong.

It is simple to see the bad connections or choices of the things you are not to deeply involved in, but it is much harder to make the right choices in the connections you make, somehow you have to learn to take distance and critically look at the connections you have make in your work.

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Time and space (part1)

Computers and especially internet brought a whole new perspective on time and place. We now can do more in a small amount of time. This becomes more apparent every time I have to (re) install an Adobe program  and I can’t use internet. The installation process can take up to ten minutes(!), just think of all the things you can do on-line in ten minutes. So now I’m stuck can’t use the computer lost ten minutes of my on-line life and work and have to write this short blog post on my phone!

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simplicity

Simplicity is great, even if the motivation for keeping it simple is lack of time, inspiration or talent (or all). Personally I like simple things for they are easy to understand and create. It would even better if you can make something extremely complicated really simple. And interesting if you can make something simple difficult.

like this (sort of):

A simple thing

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Marking My Territory (ass3)

The following work is a first experiment in time, place and video. These videos show the journey of a single piece of paper, marking its territory in the living room. (all three video should be played at the same time to make sense I know it is asking a lot of you the visitor, trust me I’m working on a solution here to make them play automatically.) Hope you can appreciate the short video.

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Marking My Territory (ass2)

I wasn’t really satisfied with my work for the first assignment with the title ‘Marking My Territory’ (MMT) and during class it didn’t get good reviews, so I decided  for the upcoming  video assignment to turn things around. The following video is again about marking territory, this time out of “subjective” fear for an enemy that is either invisible or just doesn’t exist. The video should be shown on a wall for the full effect, I decided to post it to give an idea of what I’m working on.

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Paper shipwreck

Leaving the paper boat in the garage might not have been the best thing that happened to the boat, but it created a great work I would like to call the paper shipwreck. I could tell the story behind it, but the following photo will suffice I think.

shipwreck

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