Here are the recollections of the day two of the Labverde program in the Amazon, Brazil. Distilling the rich experience of the very first day in the Amazon, on the second day, it felt so very special and dream like […]
Here is a recolection of the day one of the Labverde program and the beginning of the love for the place and its ambience. With understandably tired mind, and the biological clock slightly out of balance (I have arrived in […]
I have always dreamt about visiting the Amazon Rainforest, and the idea of having an opportunity for artistic engagement with such landscape had a dream like quality. For quite a while, I have been interested in the indigenous knowledges and […]
This blog is to record recollections of my experience and research in Brazil.
LS Lowry, The Reference Library (now Manchester Central Library), undated
“The intellect, by nature, is a spatializing mechanism. To acquire knowledge it employs concepts, symbols, abstraction, analysis and fragmentation. The intellect gives us a fragmented but necessary, pragmatic grasp of reality, whereas intuition is the means with which to grasp […]
I’ve been reading up about various cultural notes linked with the Clydach Gorge collaboration and in looking at a Wiki entry on how Mary Frances Frere came to write about Indian folklore, the phrase What started as an idle conversation […]
“We may start producing generations who know a great deal of “information” about the past but who have no purchase on pastness itself” Sven Birkerts, The Gutenburg Elegies
A message from Barack Obama to the librarians of the world
“In today’s cynicism, the disavowal of knowledge is not embodied in a fetish object – things are bought to a self-referential extreme so that the fetish enables us to disavow knowledge itself. “Knowledge” functions as an obstacle which prevents … […]
I’m waiting on getting some alkathene, often used in the frame for poly tunnels along with heat shrink wrap plastic to get the light projecting into a dark space version of Bathe in ignorance to its next phase. Richard […]
The little video I did back in April projecting a word through pinpricks onto a wall. I’m now back to considering the words I’m using to project. So I came by the words I’m using by photocopying a few pages […]
