BEHIND CURTAINS - LAYOUT CHANGE

It continues to develop organically...

I think the current layout is boring. Also viewers probably could not get much from the images only because there are no texts in side. Therefore, I am considering to use text. I am thinking to use ‘what I was doing then’ as the text juxtaposed to the image, of course, with the time written. This way, I am exposing my privacy against the rooms opposite to where I stayed. Behind my curtains, I was doing this and that, vis-a-vis the subjects being monitored are having their lives.

REAR WINDOW - BEHIND CURTAINS

I have been considering the project now and then literally every day. I like this procedure - ideas come up all the times organically or form from things around me. A couple of things.

Rather than 72 images, I would like to make to 24 images, from 10:00pm to 10:00pm making one whole day. Then after a few days, I think I better make it an open ending, so maybe rather than 24 hours 24 images, I could make 32 images from 10:00pm to 8:00am the day after inferring the story goes on.

Another thing is the title. I come to not like ‘Rear Window’ as the title. After a few ideas screening, I think ‘Behind Curtains’ maybe more conceptual. The curtain in the image is quite visually strong. Curtain itself is conceptual. It is a border, mask, watershed splitting privacy to public, protecting the inside from being exposed to others. Anyway, I found curtain amazing, and I am really get engaged with ‘curtain’ as such.

FAMILY AND THE FAMILIAR - FINALE

Group exhibition at P3 Gallery, London.

4th Prize in Single Image Entry...

TAKE A BREAK - POMPIDOU II

I like Edvard Munch’s work but I never did much research about him. The exhibition ‘The Modern Eye’ refreshed me mapping out his life long career. I like his exaggerated perspective, his light minimal composition, his repetitions works on the same subjects such as ‘The Weeping Woman’ ‘Scream’ ‘Doubtless’ ‘Melancholy’, his motifs of night, his self portraits…

TAKE A BREAK - POMPIDOU I

Paris is Paris. The minute I arrived at Charles de Gaulle airport, the stylistic architect phased in... I went to Pompidou. First time, though had some dinner some years ago at George on top of it. Needless to say, it is phenomenal... Walking in permanent collections, I felt like walking in an modern art history maze, as the presentation is based chronically in the pre 1960 collection. There are so many canon works! Seeing in books and seeing in the physical forms totally differs. There are many of favourite works. Quite a few photographic work as well. One of the impressive is Rineka Dijkstra’s video work ‘I see a woman crying’. It is a three way video work, very theatrical, camera movement, concept and the natural interaction between the kids and the painting... There are a few playful works by Yayoi Kusama. Also her concept of ‘self-obliteration’. Accumulation and repetition more and more have an impact on me. Kusama used this method created many strong works. I would like to create some playful work, life is too serious… More and more, I come to like more historical artists, even though many decades ago, the concept never ceased to impress.

TAKE A BREAK - POSTMODERNISM II

There is a special collection on photography. I quite like the de-contextualisation in Sarah Charlsworth, Clare Strand, James Welling (Drapery) and Sarah Pickering’s works. “Instead of clarity, enhancing the ambiguity”...

TAKE A BREAK - POSTMODERNISM I

Ginlio Paolini "The Other Figure"

Robert Longo "Men in the Cities"

V&A is celebrating postmodernism. The exhibition encompasses enormous collections across a wide range of forms including architecture, installation, sculpture, music, fashion, movie etc etc…