memory and mapping and uganda
Nov. 5th, 2007 12:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
avadDreams: visiting my grandmother's old home/building in the Bronx...and seeing it strangely deteriorated...as if eroded by time(ages)....the roofline (of all the buildings on the street) jagged, the windows open and glassless and full with mud/sand.
'Real Life':
thoughts on memory and space again.
visited a gallery I'm looking forward to showing in (art + architecture) and spoke with the owner for a long while about all sorts of things...including memory palaces and virtual worlds. She's planning out the next year of exhibitions and wants to do something with me.:)
Finally a full studio day today...painting on a new set of 12" circle pieces....in the studio and at the kitchen table...mappings and water. I need long stretches of time to really fall IN to the ideas..to this other realm. Wish i could just be a hermit for a while with no other responsibilities..and let this all blossom.
also playing with the paper beads again...with pinheads they become people...tiny little dolls in ethnic-looking dress...and this seems so strangely right too. I am reaching in my mind to Uganda and want to SEE...so I go load up Google Earth and fly around. Cannot see Gulu...but then nearby I find a clear section and zoom in...I fly around the farmland and clear land...and happen upon a strange pattern...which extends very far...thousands of little earth colored bumps..??...which i later find to be
huts in a huge camp for displaced persons....
:(!!
this sinks in differently now...the scale of it.
and I am there in shapes and thoughts...mixing materials, combining stories...of where everyone is and what is happening right now here and there and everywhere at once.
'Real Life':
thoughts on memory and space again.
visited a gallery I'm looking forward to showing in (art + architecture) and spoke with the owner for a long while about all sorts of things...including memory palaces and virtual worlds. She's planning out the next year of exhibitions and wants to do something with me.:)
Finally a full studio day today...painting on a new set of 12" circle pieces....in the studio and at the kitchen table...mappings and water. I need long stretches of time to really fall IN to the ideas..to this other realm. Wish i could just be a hermit for a while with no other responsibilities..and let this all blossom.
also playing with the paper beads again...with pinheads they become people...tiny little dolls in ethnic-looking dress...and this seems so strangely right too. I am reaching in my mind to Uganda and want to SEE...so I go load up Google Earth and fly around. Cannot see Gulu...but then nearby I find a clear section and zoom in...I fly around the farmland and clear land...and happen upon a strange pattern...which extends very far...thousands of little earth colored bumps..??...which i later find to be
huts in a huge camp for displaced persons....
:(!!
this sinks in differently now...the scale of it.
and I am there in shapes and thoughts...mixing materials, combining stories...of where everyone is and what is happening right now here and there and everywhere at once.
