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I NEED THE SEA

I need the sea because it teaches me.

– Pablo Neruda

Spending this rainy afternoon preparing for the coming summer by reflecting on the last.

These photos where taken sitting in the dunes, staring out into the pacific ocean. If I had swum out in a straight line, the first piece of land I would have set foot on would be South America. The slight swell landing on the shore had travelled thousands of kilometers without interruption; without human recognition.

The weather was moving in from behind me, so as each line of cloud dropped it was as if by surprise. Slowly the horizon swallowed the evening light.

Watching the elements intertwine like that is one of those ever-lasting activities. The kind that remind you you are but a speck in the history of time. The kind that make you wonder about all the other beings who have marvelled at the edge of the world before you.

The repeating patterns of the world pulse through you. That horizon, whether it is distinct, as in these images, or seeping into itself, is eternally calming. I am so looking forward to spending some time swimming in it this Summer.

NEW EYES

I haven't seen Blur this way before. I think I like it more.

BLURSKING

- Marjan Colletti

Blursking

The refurbishment project of a flat in Bolzano/Bozen, Italy, engages in the research undertaken on blur and superposition. Partly sanded glass walls act as physical partitions of functions, yet link the spaces together in a blurred and soft perception of a whole environment. Here, the wall is considered as an intrafacial screen. Rather than blocking the view, the screen allows the gaze into, and contemplation of, spaces semi-visible behind the blurry wall; it monitors events and light conditions and displays them to the other side, affecting that space as well.

The body, always present, vanishes into blurriness and inhabits the wall as well as the space. Fake reflections trigger curiosity, and refractions add layers and layers of details that create a cloudy’ and ‘soft’ experience of the space and of the walls. Other horizontal elements cut through functions and spaces, merging them. They perform the major infrastructural functions of the flat and soften the rigidity of boundary conditions, while relating two spaces contemporarily. Three transparent gaps allow visual penetration through the glass walls: at eye, hand and foot level; all levels allow the soft toys to ‘play’ in the flat. In certain circumstances, these transparent gaps construct fake reflections and projections.

ALIVE

I wish I had known about Robert Montgomery when my first year architecture students were designing billboards for architectural manifestos. Describing himself as 'post-situationist' his poetic texts 'hijack' advertising space, often illegally.The two I have shown above collect sunlight during the day and recycle it at night, glowing.

PRESSED

Letterpress from Naomie Ross on Vimeo.

SECONDS

Yes, it's Bill Henson. We've all seen it before, but sometimes it's worth taking a second look.

A LA PINTURA

Motherwell, 2003 at the Getty.

PALIMPSEST

Ailbhe Ní Bhriain's solo show at the Butler Gallery, Kilkenny,

installation view of 'Palimpsest' video series, each continously looped, 2008.

'Once we acknowledge the constitutive gap between reality and its representation in language or image, we must in principle be open to many different possibilities of representing the real and its memories. This is not to say that anything goes. The question of quality remains one to be decided case by case. But the semiotic gap cannot be closed by any orthodoxy of correct representation.'
-Andreas Huyssen in Present pasts: urban palimpsests and the politics of memory

SKIN

Wish I could figure out who this artist is; all I can tell from this article about the Transmediale in Berlin is that they are German. Stunning though, rather similar scratch back techniques to Zidlicky.

WE DISAPPEARED

Am Meer/Sea scapes.

I feel a strange desire to turn these images upside down, as if I was lying on the beach with looking up at the sky, then tilting my head back so far as to see the deep blue proposal of the horizon, and further round, the sea stretching out beyond.
To disappear myself into the scape.

Beautiful work by Thomas Wrede.