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compartmentsee: Charging the Void
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Friday, 10 April 2015. I took these series of photos for the last photo theme of "Personal" at the Democratic Camera Club. Here in Edinburgh. The vase in the photos was made by my dad who taught ceramics and was an art lecturer. I first wrote about the vase in a blog post called Forget Me Not. At the meeting the main feedback I received was to film it as a performance. The term "(positively) Charging the Void" was used by artist and lecturer David Grinly in his introduction to the theme of "Personal".
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compartmentsee: You are still here
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Friday, 15 May 2015. You are still here. These photos were taken at the Miro Foundation in Barcelona designed by Josep Lluis Serp. The title of the post is borrowed from a piece by one of my favourite artists Mona Hatoum. Which was exhibited in one of the rooms in the collection. The piece is a mirror that catches your reflection and asserts that YOU ARE STILL HERE. You are still here - a positive meaning, as in you are still here, alive, you matter. You are still here - you are still, unmoving.
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compartmentsee: Sagrada Familia, Stained Glass and Selfie Sticks
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Tuesday, 19 May 2015. Sagrada Familia, Stained Glass and Selfie Sticks. Perhaps it was the hordes of tourists (including myself) in the church and the din of the ongoing building works (the church will take another 40 years to complete) that had displaced any atmosphere of religious feeling. In fact a sign recommended worshipers go down to the chapel in the crypt where they could pray in quiet and contemplation. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Other blogs I contribute to. Leave the light on for me.
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compartmentsee: More is More
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Saturday, 14 March 2015. To celebrate the current Barbican exhibition Magnificent Obsessions: The artist as Collector. Are asking people to share images of their collections in a mini gallery. You can win a pair of tickets to Magnificent Obsessions: The artist as Collector at the Barbican and tickets to the Unicorn Theatre but really just to share the love and show how collecting inspires. Don't be shy. Please share.". My collection is much more modest I am afraid. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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compartmentsee: The Ticket Collector
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Sunday, 15 March 2015. In 1997, I travelled from Prague, Moscow, St Petersburg overland on the Transiberian Express to China and then Thailand, Laos and finally Indonesia. On the way I collected scraps of paper, tickets, cigarette and match box packets, stamps, and anything that caught my eye. Below is a selection from that. I remembered this scrapbook after Benjamin Pollock's Toy Shop. Or check out their Facebook page. Mongolian money, stamps and maps. Moscow and ticket for Transiberian perhaps.
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compartmentsee: I Wish This Place
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Sunday, 22 February 2015. I Wish This Place. Sand has formed itself to shell. Impossibility within which to dwell. Good luck, fair weather, another year. For the place that stays on here. My wish is more selfish than that. I want to take it, wrap it up. I pick up the corners of loose bricks. And fold them slowly, light as air. I slip the windows into my bag. And into my pocket goes the door. I find a compass of zigzag tracks. A ballet of heavy machinery. Scaffolding falls into a telescope.
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compartmentsee: Your Voice is You
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Saturday, 23 May 2015. Your Voice is You. Some photos from the opening night of HIDDEN DOOR. In Edinburgh, which is a non profit arts festival which takes place in abandoned or hidden places in Edinburgh. This year it is at the old street lighting depot on King's Stables Road, right in Edinburgh's old town, near the Grassmarket. On until Saturday 30 May. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Other blogs I contribute to. My photography website till 2007. Leave the light on for me. Photo by Grace Dolcini.
