I am very proud to announce that I am part of a three man exhibition at the Resolution Gallery on Jan Smuts avenue in Joburg. If you’re in Jozi, please join us at the opening on 10 July, from 17:00 onwards. It would be fantastic to see a few friendly faces!
Browse the images on flickr, or below.
And so few updates!
So aside from the past four months of madness since the last post, I decided to share a moment of paradise and tranquility in Sicily. Bethany and I went to Palermo (map) and Stromboli (map) for a 10 day return to our previous homeland. Aside from the obvious things - coffee tasting like little moments of caffeinated heaven; meals causing tears of joy based solely on hearing their titles being expressed in Italian; And other very important things too… But seriously - after food and coffee, its hard to see through the cloud of seretonin induced euphoria.
The photos are going to make you jealous.
Hello again world.
I havent posted anything since the Tuned Stairs kicked in at center pompidou last october. In fact I havent uploaded anything to flickr either! Not to mention the fact that I also haven’t updated my portfolio. (oi)
So: its been over six months, and I definitely am well beyond making up excuses for lack of updates. It begins here! The brief history: Left Italy in December. It was after 21 months of extraordinary time spent in the quaintest (though rather fascist) town named Treviso, while working for Fabrica. Perhaps I will write up a little about my 21 months there… but definitely not now! As for leaving - well it really was time to move on. Though I loved the place, the experience, and of course the food/friends/language etc - I needed to do something else.
As soon as I returned to South Africa I packed a smaller bag and rushed off to Botswana! I met up with one of the best collection of my old mates: Robert, Yuval, Shannon, and Aviv. We proceeded to have 10 days of fantastic fun driving around getting lost, tiger fishing, drinking, playing match stick riddles, eating fantastically well, etc etc. Wonderful. The day after our return from Bots, I was off to Cape Town to meet Family Hirschmann. Of course it was lovely to see the clan, get some sun and enjoy the beauties of the Cape. I stayed on in Cape Town to do some preparatory work for my Visa application and to do some ground work for a project I was doing with Collaborators Guide. More on that in a future post. (Though for now, you can read about it here.)
Once that project was completed and my lady Bethany had come and gone, I spent a week teaching physical computing at my old University. At that point, my grandfather managed to get himself an idiopathic condition which made him extremely ill. SO we all became intensely focused on the mortality of our loved ones and dealt with some rather hard emotions. Thankfully after 2 weeks, he started making progress and even now there is daily improvement! It truly boggles the mind when confronted with the possibilities of death, followed by the magic of the human body’s capacity to heal itself.
Anyway, so i was granted an artists visa for the UK. This allowed me to move to London, and get a job at Jason Bruges Studio. A marvelous studio made up of architects, designers, creative thinkers, and fantastic administrators. So far (2 months in) I’ve been having a great time! Updates on projects will come at some stage in the future too!
Thats it for now. Everyone is upto speed. Now all I have to do is post all the photos!
People are using them, enjoying them, playing with them - and generally resulting a positive reactions all around. We are like proud dads. More photos will be uploaded when the paris experience slows down to a walking pace.
Our project mentioned in previous posts: Tuned Stairs was approved about 2 weeks ago for installation at Center Pompidou for the FABRICA: Les Yeux Ouverts exhibition between 6 October and 6 November 2006.
If anyone reading this is going to be in Paris between now and the 11th, let me know!
Pictures will follow soon…
This is where my portfolio is slowly being uploaded. One day, the look and feel and menu structure will effect everything including the blog - but baby steps … baby steps! Thus improves the plankman.
Bethany and I went off to Puglia for a little well deserved rest and relaxation. We truly had an incredible time. One week in the middle of one of the most beautiful places I’ve been to in Italy. The people are friendly, and real. The food is totally insane. You can’t imagine how well we ate. I don’t see how its possible to beat the tastes I experienced in the heal of the boot of italy. Click the pics for more delicious visuals
Here are the pics of my fam in europe. Good times were to be had by all. One day I might even have the time to post the description of the trip! The quick story: met them in Paris, hit the canals in the South of France; watched Italy win the world cup; Headed to Treviso; and enjoyed some time together in the place I’ve called home for the last 1.5 years.
The pics link to images collected in Paris, both of family and art (particularly pay attention to the gorgeous frames!) And of course the pics from the canals themselves. It was a total pleasure having the family in Europe. I finally had the opportunity to show off my Italian skills ;-)
I have my whole family in Europe! My parents just had their 36th wedding anniversary (weeee!) and they came to celebrate first on a boat cruise down some french canals - and now in waaaay-too-hot italy. Yesterday was the anniversary day. Today Im catching up on my digital life… perhaps tomorrow there might even be some pictures to look at.
Its great to have them here. (Although it would be nice to have my room back one day :-)
Our installation is up and running at colette right now! And will be up until sunday. Very good experience and truly wonderful to get stuck into some serious production! Now back to the ‘trevisian grindstone’ …