A. DIALOOG - A Conversation

Mark

Gala

 

Redirecting the previous digital conversation - The introduction

Mark

*Nalda*

Introducing Nalda Searles.

https://artguide.com.au/nalda-searles-on-circumnavigating-the-art-craft-divide-through-meandering-creativity/

Artist, friend of Mark and Kopi. Another person who encouraged and fed my creativity from a young age.

A. DIALOOG - Stream of conciseness

Littering things that hold meaning for me on the floor. Memories.

Reflecting on attachment to objects. Are possessions what build your sense of self or sense of home?

Life out of a box. Belongings weighing you down, carrying them from one place to the other. 

Idea to add another layer to the painting: create small sculptures of the objects that I have to "move" with me. Like a doll house, the sculptures go with the paintings.

(Feedback pieces from conversation 25-09-2024)

Direct imagery. Sentimental aspect - Very personal. Going from personal to universal. What of my experience can be relatable /sharable with my audience. Box moving. How to transform feeling with the toy. Maybe create a "new" character in order to create significance for audience.

Correspond with Mark over mail.

Grayson Perry

P3 P&P 2 - 19/09

 

This Is Not An Atlas. 

Mapping and drawing a window in the first 15 minutes of class.

Map 1: Remembering street names from the 3 cities I've lived in-

(Left) Drawing of window class thursday the 19th.

(right) Map 2 : Walking around my SSH building at 23:00. Prinsendam 552. Tracked with the Nike run app-

A. DIALOOG - Thoughts and Intentions

 Stream of Consciousness - New piece.

"The Lost Thing"(?) https://www.shauntan.net/the-lost-thing-book

"The Arrival" https://www.shauntan.net/arrival-book

Space strewn with moving boxes. Cardboard boxes. Unboxing forgotten objects. Objects.                   Things laying around on the ground.

• Ski queen (face down)
• Tall backed short yellow chair
• Chanchito de la suerte

Hugging the house on wheels Mark Binns made for me. Binzy lived with Kopi in the house next to us on Malcom street. They where our neighbours and our landlords. Binzy has an amazing workshop in his backyard. He makes wind instruments: Flutes, recorders, ocarinas... He even made my brother and I recorders out of broccoli and carrot that we would play for the chickens. The would peck at our edible instruments while we made music for them.

He made me this house that I could pull around on a string. A moving house.

When we moved away, the house travelled in a cardboard box, in a container, on a container ship.

The shipped arrived 2 months after us. To rediscover all my lost-at-sea toys as a six-year-old was bliss. Pure excitement. 

I don't know where Ski Queen came from but she has always been there. She would serve us Gudbrandsdalen Gjetost on her ski poles on special occasions. That is the way we eat Gudbrandsdalen Gjetost.

A chair appears again in my piece. A yellow ocher chair with short legs and a tall, straight back. My chair for creating.

And cardboard boxes. We stacked them and attached them together creating shelves. That way we didn't have to buy more furniture. It was perfectly functional and cool. And they stayed with us for the whole four years. A symbol of not belonging (?) of being in between, in transition. It shouted "We have not settled!".

The cardboard boxes gave me a certain reputation among my friends. They where recurrent. For my 8th birthday we made a tunnel through the whole house for us kids to crawl around like moles.

The Moving Boxes

Song: https://www.philipgriffin.com/sorry-audio

Creator of the white house on wheels, Mark Binz (in black hat)

Atelier Dialoog - Wolf 1

Coming up with composition and details

clocking into the office (16/09/24) and the making of the reference image.

P3 Public & Private 1

 Kick off (05-09-2024)

Kick off - Mapping along the Rotte

Week 1 (12-09-2024)

Preparation for week 1: Reading content

Notes from reviewing texts in class. Exploring methods of mapping (12/09/2024).

Text 1, Page 1, column 2: "if only to register the importance of loss and explain it has been damaged by careless development."

    Notes                            5 min drawing