Detail.

 

Inspire by Georges Perec and Peter Peri, A painstakingly detailed description of when of I was out and about observing 'the everyday' accompanied by a painstakingly detailed drawing of what I was looking at when I was describing what I was looking at, in Stevensen Square, NQ.

Visual display of my ponderous thoughts and narratives. Something I will continue alongside my future projects in notebooks and paper format...

Everybody's Everyday.

We never just look at one thing, we are always looking at the relation betweens things and ourselves.
Our vision is continually active, continually moving, continually holding things in a circle around itself, constituting what is present.
JOHN BERGER

I like the idea of thinking about other people, an interactive element, possibily gaining information about what other people are looking at; what is outside their window?

As I am quite interested in installation art and sculpture, It could be quite nice to think of this project about having looked at which is already installed, what my everyday and other peoples everyday is...


LARA ALMARCEGUI- 
WASTELANDS: A GUIDE TO THE EMPTY SITES OF AMSTERDAM

This artist looks at new ways of envisioning urban space through the contemplating of the unseen and unacknowledged, she created a document that guided people away from the tourist attractions of amsterdam to more downbeat, contingent, empty spaces in the outskirts of the city...

REVEALS NUANCES OF SPACE
POTENTIAL DREAM SPACES

Could be interesting to build on the idea of engaging people and thinking about the more unacknowledged and everyday urban environments that surround us...

Grids;Montage

JUST PLAYING

Recently read an article in SHOPPING HOUR, which has made me think more about the meaning and context for my project...

The basis of the article relates to child's play...

'Such moments of nonsense, which occur within and between the mundane, everyday routines of children's lives offer an alternative vision of reality, in which the limits of the real world can be temporarily set to one side.'

Main words of interest here being 'mundane', 'everyday' and ALTERNATIVE VISION OF REALITY.
This connects to my ideas about creating nonsense in the mundane, offereing alternative views or windows of the everyday... Thinking about creating a nonsense book, back to front, images that have been messed or 'played' around with...

'Conjuring up a picture of marvellous possibilities, by a simple irrational connection. The 'montage' offers an unusual combination of events that surprise, make one look again and disturb habitual ways of seeing things. Both short stories here suggest this (montaging and unusual combinations) rather than ordering in an illogical order.'

I have been playing around, making a few test books, just thinking about layout and construction; next stages thinking about the actual content which in the book. Now I am thinking about the idea of 'montaging'; I have already begun to do this, but I was classing my arrangements more as grids, where montaging seems more fitting.

Going to push it further, thinking about sticking arrangements up outside on the streets,walls, taking lots more photos, and maybe even gathering other peoples photos of their everyday...