mmm… this tangle of stuff just hits my aesthetic tastebuds in the right place.
I had a few helpers at the RE-aRT studio last OdD SaTUrdAy, and got them to take some Art of Found pictures, too:
Batman is fighting the scary purple tentacles, and dodging the dangerous metal spirals! (photo by Jennifer Jarding)
And here we have an obelisk with a face: the personality of the tree coming through, contradicting the squareness with a deep story… (photo by Shane Roach)
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My friend Jessica co-curated this very intriguing inter-disciplinary art show this past month, so I just had to submit something.
My art statement:
My feeling is that physical truths which can be expressed mathematically are inherently present all around us and therefore intuitive. Finding the mathematical relationships which describe those truths gives tangible (albeit still mysterious) justification for our unconscious recognition of things like the “good sound” of a perfect fifth.
The invitation to create art about a sonic concept prompted me to delve into my synaesthetic pathways. Similar to Pythagoras encountering the perfect tonal relationships, I can relate as a photographer encountering color and/or shape combinations which simply “sing”. In this installation, I present two photographs which I have “translated” sonically by breaking them down into different visual-auditory elements/motifs. By no means scientific, this process is a kind of intuitive approximating that I rely on as an art-maker…
After matching the sounds in my head to field recordings and keyboard tones, I engaged in some improvisational play to combine the elements into compositions. (Enjoy!)
I didn’t get a photo of the installed piece, but here are the two photos I submitted:
They were displayed above a diagram showing how I dissected the images for “elements”, and a small shelf for a CD player with headphones. The audio project can be heard at:
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Yesterday (Wednesday, Sept. 19th, 2012) had a lot of cartoony details in it. Like finding a worm in the rice after eating. Like the smell of moth balls following me everywhere after not even touching them… like the family of skinny deer standing and staring at me. A big dog ineffectually, repeatedly humping a tiny dog. A field full of fragrance at night. And then of course the procession of grown children heading toward a tunnel for an underground concert. Then all the paranoias, like scorpions, flash-floods, gas leaks. Music/sound and ambiance so perfect- – snuggling with a cartoon giant. And finally, the painting-worthy closed Valero station, captured poorly but glowing nonetheless.
This is the cartoon giant (on the right) I found a comfortable place with and listened to George St. John play a song.
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There is a curiosity-inspiring little community growing in the fenced-in yard next to 11th St.’s Victory Grill. Between that historic venue and the nearby trailer eateries which buffer old East 11th from the monstrously modern new orange-balconied development, is Kenny Dorham’s backyard, a fantastic place to take in some blues or soul music, tend to some plots, or to have a healthy garden-to-plate meal with kind new friends.
I made a post on the Austin Time Exchange Network a few months back, offering my services as a photographer to do a time-lapse sequence of a project or place. Kesten Broughton, proprietor of SunFarmKitchens, a (partially) solar-powered food trailer, has been spearheading the community garden projects and hosting Fambly Dinner once a week, and he took me up on the offer. So far I have been out there 3 times, and it has been a good learning experience for me to observe the changes and try and figure out the best way to capture it on camera. Some of the work-in-progress below:
sunflowers, 5/7/12
sunflowers, 5/16/12
sunflowers, 6/21/12
– _____ – _______ — ______ –
center garden, 5/7/12
center garden, 5/16/12
center garden, 6/21/12
– _____ – _______ — ______ –
haybed, 5/7/12
haybed, 5/16/12
haybed-turned-food, 6/21/12
– _____ – _______ — ______ –
mural side, 5/7/12
mural side, 5/16/12
mural side, 6/21/12
– _____ – _______ — ______ –
This last time I was there, there was a lot of stuff growing all around, so I have a lot of extra pictures which do not show an evolution. See those and more at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70127061@N07/sets/
Now seeking submissions for an ongoing to-do list gallery. (virtual. here).
I like the scanned piece of paper (or whatever you write on) sent as a jpg of web-quality size (72 dpi), but at least 800 pixels on one of its sides.
Send to collectionrert<>at<>gmail<>dot<>com
Starting, …NOW!
Please and Thank You.
p.s. I stole/borrowed the Please and Thank you from mr. chad hopper, my beloved heartmate.
p.p.s. so, the idea is, I wanna see how+what people write, when they are writing reminders to themselves, be it in a very structured format, or in a more right-brain wabi-sabi way… If you send, I will post.
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