Friday, September 18, 2009
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Thought of the day
The difference between a jehovah's witness and a door to door salesman is that jehovah's witnesses work on a Sunday.
I've just been followed home by a JW who sells amway health products for a living. when I refused to 'accept the bible' he handed me a business card and tried to sell me multi-vitamins.
I love this city
I've just been followed home by a JW who sells amway health products for a living. when I refused to 'accept the bible' he handed me a business card and tried to sell me multi-vitamins.
I love this city
peace_by_piece
This is the Peace_by_Piece. drawing so far I send someone a post-card and they create the next one in the sequence. If you would like to find out more or create the next post-card i, leave a message for me with your email address
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
getting the memo
Flip-book animation
Originally uploaded by young tamlyn
sequential drawings made on post-it notes and photographed individually. edited in Final cut pro
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Thursday, May 28, 2009
cross
this is one of the many red neon crosses that define the typical korean cityscape---more ubiquitous than any other advertising media. I liked this one because it has a lightening conductor that reminds me of Shiva's 'trishul' and the holy trinity. I suppose even the holiest of symbols are in danger of being struck down
Thursday, January 29, 2009
heart without fear
heart without fear, originally uploaded by didgereedonut.
This long-term illustration project involves creating an illustration to define every 24 hours . That's one card per day . The post cards won't enter the traditional postal service instead they will be posted to an address in virtual space (the website is currently under construction).This is the first postcard post. This card was created in the airport departure lounge on 24-11-2008, the day I left South Africa to live in Korea.
Sunday, October 05, 2008
'A Place I Know Well'
This has been a month of crossing geographical and psychological borders. place: Switzerland project: ' A Place I Know Well' Eleven artists from different countries working and living together for four weeks = fusion ,confusion and a very active coffee machine. Our aim was to put together and exhibiton that explores the idea of home and asks what it means to know a place well.My contributions took the form of mapping, collecting objects/ stories/memories and a site-specific video installation.
LEGEND (Derived.:Latin, Legenda, "things to be read")
A story set in the past.
A narrative of human actions
Associated with a specific time and place in history.
Outside PROGR, Bern, Switzerland
View of 'Legend' from inside archive room at PROGR
I arrived in Switzerland with a backpack full of memories individually packaged in Ziploc bags .This installation is an inventory of the objects accumulated during an extended period of living in-between places. The collection retains traces of memories connecting to people and places I have known well and who have shaped my identity. My relationship to the objects is ambivalent: an aversion to the burden of material possessions contradicts an attachment to their practical/sentimental value,
Map of the motion patterns
we trace when we travel
through space and time
What interested me most about working with all of these artists in this place and with the idea of ‘a place I know well’ is that we all come from diverse backgrounds but for a short time our life paths converge in a space that is foreign to all of us.
All of the places, people and circumstances we experienced up until this point in our lives have shaped our identities and our way of understanding the world and each other. So we have different ways of communicating in our spoken and artistic languages. The objective of the mapping project was to map not only the routes each of us had travelled externally/geographically but also to collect specific data that gave insight into the people we have become and the memories we carry with our (i.e our internal space).
I put a map of the world on the wall, each of us selected a colour and , using home as a starting point we began to map every place we have ever travelled to in chronological sequence.This creates a visual of the unique paths we each have followed thus far in our lifetimes and to see where our paths have crossed through the same spaces at different times.
I like the idea that the body’s movement through space traces invisible lines on the landscape. We create patterns on the earth as we travel or migrate from one place to another. Sometimes we are free to move as we want to and sometimes our movements are determined by external forces such as politics/bureaucracy/other peoples expectations. Whatever the case may be no body’s pattern is exactly the same.
The body contains and occupies space. The internal space of our physical workings, our thoughts and dreams and the external environment are always interconnected. The map became 3dimensional as people started to create areas of expansion , zooming in on their familiar spaces and mapping their intimate environments in more detail. This mapping idea was inspired by Friedrich Hundertwasser an Austrian artist and architect who has the theory that man has five 'skins':
1st his actual skin-his epidermis that separates his body (containing physical, mental and psychic processes from his surrounding environment)--this is what you call 'me' or 'I'
2nd his clothing-the way we dress our body is an immediate expression of our cultural/religious/social identity
3rd his house-the shelter we seek and how we arrange our space is also an expression of our values.
4th his immediate community (family, friends,associatess)-the community we are familiar with and whose values we share
5th the global community--the sphere of politics and issues which control our environments .These are unknown territories which we can travel to but over which we have limited power to influence.
HOME IS...
PROGR, elevator, thoughts on what he word home means, written in transit between floors.
The elevator is a non-place--it is like an airport in that respect, a place where people go only in order to get to somewhere else. This space of motion and transit is the opposite of home which is generally associated with feelings of stability and belonging.Often it is while we are away from home, when we are between places that we have the clearest feeling of what it means to be 'home'. I used this liminal space as a vehicle to collect peoples thought s on what home means to them.
THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY DEGREES
Back projected site specific video installation
This video was back projected through a circular window . It was inspired by the observation that water goes down the drain in a clockwise direction in Switzerland whereas at home in South Africa it spins in an anti-clockwise direction. This mundane detail made me feel simultaneously closer and further away from my point of origin. It was a reminder of the forces more powerful than man that govern existence .We all exist on a planet that is in constant motion,in orbit on a fragile sphere that rotates at 360 degrees every 24hours . That for me put the idea of a place I know well in a new perspective. I superimposed footage of water going don a plughole in my basin at home in Durban with footage of the same action shot in a basin in Switzerland.
LEGEND (Derived.:Latin, Legenda, "things to be read")
A story set in the past.
A narrative of human actions
Associated with a specific time and place in history.
Outside PROGR, Bern, Switzerland
View of 'Legend' from inside archive room at PROGRI arrived in Switzerland with a backpack full of memories individually packaged in Ziploc bags .This installation is an inventory of the objects accumulated during an extended period of living in-between places. The collection retains traces of memories connecting to people and places I have known well and who have shaped my identity. My relationship to the objects is ambivalent: an aversion to the burden of material possessions contradicts an attachment to their practical/sentimental value,
Despite the valuable memories they contained these objects began to feel like a burden-an accumulation of things from the past with no place in my current reality. Traditionally i exhibit my collections behind glass in display cabinets .For this collection it felt better to exhibit them outside the window-behind glass but vulnerable to the elements--like taking the back out of the display cabinet and surrendering the contents once again to the passage of time. Looking out of the window the view was obscured by opaque Ziploc packets full of objects--the past obscuring the present. Each packet was numbered and catalogued so that visitors can read about the memory/story attached to each of the objects.
YOU ARE (W)HERE?!
YOU ARE (W)HERE?!
Map of the motion patternswe trace when we travel
through space and time
What interested me most about working with all of these artists in this place and with the idea of ‘a place I know well’ is that we all come from diverse backgrounds but for a short time our life paths converge in a space that is foreign to all of us.
All of the places, people and circumstances we experienced up until this point in our lives have shaped our identities and our way of understanding the world and each other. So we have different ways of communicating in our spoken and artistic languages. The objective of the mapping project was to map not only the routes each of us had travelled externally/geographically but also to collect specific data that gave insight into the people we have become and the memories we carry with our (i.e our internal space).
I put a map of the world on the wall, each of us selected a colour and , using home as a starting point we began to map every place we have ever travelled to in chronological sequence.This creates a visual of the unique paths we each have followed thus far in our lifetimes and to see where our paths have crossed through the same spaces at different times.
I like the idea that the body’s movement through space traces invisible lines on the landscape. We create patterns on the earth as we travel or migrate from one place to another. Sometimes we are free to move as we want to and sometimes our movements are determined by external forces such as politics/bureaucracy/other peoples expectations. Whatever the case may be no body’s pattern is exactly the same.
The body contains and occupies space. The internal space of our physical workings, our thoughts and dreams and the external environment are always interconnected. The map became 3dimensional as people started to create areas of expansion , zooming in on their familiar spaces and mapping their intimate environments in more detail. This mapping idea was inspired by Friedrich Hundertwasser an Austrian artist and architect who has the theory that man has five 'skins':
1st his actual skin-his epidermis that separates his body (containing physical, mental and psychic processes from his surrounding environment)--this is what you call 'me' or 'I'
2nd his clothing-the way we dress our body is an immediate expression of our cultural/religious/social identity
3rd his house-the shelter we seek and how we arrange our space is also an expression of our values.
4th his immediate community (family, friends,associatess)-the community we are familiar with and whose values we share
5th the global community--the sphere of politics and issues which control our environments .These are unknown territories which we can travel to but over which we have limited power to influence.
PROGR, elevator, thoughts on what he word home means, written in transit between floors.The elevator is a non-place--it is like an airport in that respect, a place where people go only in order to get to somewhere else. This space of motion and transit is the opposite of home which is generally associated with feelings of stability and belonging.Often it is while we are away from home, when we are between places that we have the clearest feeling of what it means to be 'home'. I used this liminal space as a vehicle to collect peoples thought s on what home means to them.
THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY DEGREES
Back projected site specific video installationThis video was back projected through a circular window . It was inspired by the observation that water goes down the drain in a clockwise direction in Switzerland whereas at home in South Africa it spins in an anti-clockwise direction. This mundane detail made me feel simultaneously closer and further away from my point of origin. It was a reminder of the forces more powerful than man that govern existence .We all exist on a planet that is in constant motion,in orbit on a fragile sphere that rotates at 360 degrees every 24hours . That for me put the idea of a place I know well in a new perspective. I superimposed footage of water going don a plughole in my basin at home in Durban with footage of the same action shot in a basin in Switzerland.
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