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Sunday, 7 June 2009
Wednesday, 10 December 2008
The final hour!!!
The installation idea came thru and was approved by the curators/teachers, even thought i was warned it was still too ambitious at this late stage in the project...
2 weeks away from the opening night i bought 126 (45cm x 45cm x 45cm) boxes n painted them white ... mainly did the job on my own at first but got incredible help from friends...Junior, Mona, Raji, Aya, Azzim, Talal, ... etc. It was a painful process even more painful when they first came in n said "why didnt u buy white boxes?" ............ "CUZ I COULDNT FIND ANY....."
At one point i was suppose to have sound in this project but we couldnt meet the deadline my sound guy and myself, it was my fault i didnt give Erick Brunjes enough time rather 4 hours for a 15 min video...
im rushing thru all the small pieces here to get to the end...the main art work was done just had to execute it at the gallery with getting the boxes standing like walls for the projectors to display on them.
We had 10 hours to set up n have everything done for the opening...a night before i had been to the gallery transported my boxes and closed some of them up. Had a few issues with how to stick the boxes together, had to use a lot of wood glue and marble slabs to keep the wall of boxes sturdy and safe from clumsy audience who eventually will bump into them without bearing in mind how fragile they would be on their own.
The actual arrangement of the installation had to change, from a square room (3 walls out of boxes) and a normal solid wall on one side...it ended up looking like this....
video of the final presentation will be uploaded in a few days need to clear out some space on my pc first...but there it was...i will also post the photos that were in the photo album in the order of their progression...
2 weeks away from the opening night i bought 126 (45cm x 45cm x 45cm) boxes n painted them white ... mainly did the job on my own at first but got incredible help from friends...Junior, Mona, Raji, Aya, Azzim, Talal, ... etc. It was a painful process even more painful when they first came in n said "why didnt u buy white boxes?" ............ "CUZ I COULDNT FIND ANY....."
At one point i was suppose to have sound in this project but we couldnt meet the deadline my sound guy and myself, it was my fault i didnt give Erick Brunjes enough time rather 4 hours for a 15 min video...
im rushing thru all the small pieces here to get to the end...the main art work was done just had to execute it at the gallery with getting the boxes standing like walls for the projectors to display on them.
We had 10 hours to set up n have everything done for the opening...a night before i had been to the gallery transported my boxes and closed some of them up. Had a few issues with how to stick the boxes together, had to use a lot of wood glue and marble slabs to keep the wall of boxes sturdy and safe from clumsy audience who eventually will bump into them without bearing in mind how fragile they would be on their own.
The actual arrangement of the installation had to change, from a square room (3 walls out of boxes) and a normal solid wall on one side...it ended up looking like this....
video of the final presentation will be uploaded in a few days need to clear out some space on my pc first...but there it was...i will also post the photos that were in the photo album in the order of their progression...
Sunday, 9 November 2008
Installation!?!?!
Last critique after presenting my work with so much confidence from pulling off the water reflections, i totally forgot to think about how i would present the work. If I have still pulled out of the video as photographs, or even the original photographs from where the video came out from, how will they come by together in the same space and belong to the same project where they need each other and complete each other rather than take away from each other.
The whole project was pulled out of old photographs that i found in our store room, the video came from these photographs, so were the different approaches to this project and the different elements i came out with in the end, from photographs to video and stills from the video. The photographs must be there, maybe even the other photographs i worked on earlier, what i know for sure is that they will be the photos that are forgotten with a sense of loss or death or something that is suppose to be there but isn't.
I have always wanted the sound of water in my videos, it plays along well with the performance in the video; when the video starts off slow and so will the sound of the flow of the water and vice versa towards the end when the video becomes even more and more aggressive.
I had an incredible opportunity to meet 2 french film makers during Pecha Kucha IV (Charolette & Claire) who strongly recommend the idea of an installation for this project. having in mind all of the elements i have mentioned it cant work any other way, i need to make this room my mind, i need to build my mind as an installation and have people experience what it is like for me trying to recap my childhood. This room should be as abstract and surreal as my water projections shots. Im still trying to figure out how the over all will look, but have a lot of ideas playing around with the idea of photo albums that turn to white in the end, or a cupboard that is falling apart and broken with fragments of my belongings or what i recall in there. Considering sound, video, light, space, time, ...etc installation is definitely the way to go, it will boost the strength of my project. I know its a big mad im thinking of this right now, but i wont settle for anything less for the time being. This room can be my mind, my lost memory, my grave, my living room...
Ill post my sketches of the room and my ideas later on...
The whole project was pulled out of old photographs that i found in our store room, the video came from these photographs, so were the different approaches to this project and the different elements i came out with in the end, from photographs to video and stills from the video. The photographs must be there, maybe even the other photographs i worked on earlier, what i know for sure is that they will be the photos that are forgotten with a sense of loss or death or something that is suppose to be there but isn't.
I have always wanted the sound of water in my videos, it plays along well with the performance in the video; when the video starts off slow and so will the sound of the flow of the water and vice versa towards the end when the video becomes even more and more aggressive.
I had an incredible opportunity to meet 2 french film makers during Pecha Kucha IV (Charolette & Claire) who strongly recommend the idea of an installation for this project. having in mind all of the elements i have mentioned it cant work any other way, i need to make this room my mind, i need to build my mind as an installation and have people experience what it is like for me trying to recap my childhood. This room should be as abstract and surreal as my water projections shots. Im still trying to figure out how the over all will look, but have a lot of ideas playing around with the idea of photo albums that turn to white in the end, or a cupboard that is falling apart and broken with fragments of my belongings or what i recall in there. Considering sound, video, light, space, time, ...etc installation is definitely the way to go, it will boost the strength of my project. I know its a big mad im thinking of this right now, but i wont settle for anything less for the time being. This room can be my mind, my lost memory, my grave, my living room...
Ill post my sketches of the room and my ideas later on...
Sunday, 2 November 2008
It's all making sense now...
Thing more about my project lately i realized how similar it is to an unfinished project i did trying to find my home, my own space whether it was a fantasy or reality. A home i had lost because of the constant changes happening around me and this city of all reasons to be.
My previous project discussed how my home was a place that i had lost a place that in millions of years if people where to evolve they would look different and the way how we would leave our homes and let nature takes its course would alter the environment of it so much. Since we take so much care of this city and everything in it, i managed to find something that describes this home that wont exist anymore in a few more minutes, days, months, years who knows... last time i saw that spot it was sealed up no room for anyone to go in or out; perhaps because i have messed it up too much inside. That place had so much energy and beauty within its walls, and its pieces falling apart. It is probably how i imagined to dubai to look like if we were to vanish away completely. So before i drift off into this new topic and go way off my topic; my project discussed how this country is my home even if i leave for a couple of days and come back to realize that i don't recognize any of it at all because of a new buildings that were torn down or built up, or a new road, maybe even a "bridge" who can ever recall what anything here looks like after it has been altered. Who can recall how Dubai Marina was one big pile of sand before all these towers came rushing thru, who can remember how the beach looked like before the islands where put on there, who can remember how the horizon looks like without a single building in sight or try to imagine (one rule is you have to have lived in this country for 22 years and not travelled much and/or for a long time).
In this project i was experimenting with light painting, trying to fuse a new form of human beings who will visit what we left over; how these humans would evolve to look like and how our homes would end up looking like. this is what i reached by the end of my project.
This project was never finished ... by the end of it, it appeared to amateur specially the light painting aspect of it that seemed to fall off. I see what I'm doing now a continuation of this project that never finished, in a very slim way they are related its still to do with memory but a different kind of memory that is not strict to only my childhood. It's almost as if a part of me dies everyday when i forget something, or knowing that i don't know who i was when i was young. Maybe this feeling of death is the reason my work is starting to become so dark, in terms of the shadows i placed over and a few experiments I'm following through right now; where instead of being on top of the water i am under and suffocating under my own reflection. There is a lot more to this project than what i thought, memory has always been an issue to me the fact that i forget things i want to remember that irritate me a lot when i try to capture them but they appear different and how they can end up looking like is way beyond realistic. Maybe this time i worked in reverse, i probably should have explored my childhood before trying to imagine how this place would look like in a couple of years; maybe I'm too tired by the end of all of this and need to sleep, or maybe I'm just talking shit. I know this is probably a bit too late to mention but i know its important to add as part of the process, something that i never finished.
Lately i have been working on the dark side of this topic, creating a surreal space where it is just me and my memory in possible my mind or space, and pushing the experimentation further. I've come across a few difficulties trying to set up the shots i have in my mind due to lack of knowledge and common sense ... but it should all be posted on here on tuesday.
Good Night!!!
My previous project discussed how my home was a place that i had lost a place that in millions of years if people where to evolve they would look different and the way how we would leave our homes and let nature takes its course would alter the environment of it so much. Since we take so much care of this city and everything in it, i managed to find something that describes this home that wont exist anymore in a few more minutes, days, months, years who knows... last time i saw that spot it was sealed up no room for anyone to go in or out; perhaps because i have messed it up too much inside. That place had so much energy and beauty within its walls, and its pieces falling apart. It is probably how i imagined to dubai to look like if we were to vanish away completely. So before i drift off into this new topic and go way off my topic; my project discussed how this country is my home even if i leave for a couple of days and come back to realize that i don't recognize any of it at all because of a new buildings that were torn down or built up, or a new road, maybe even a "bridge" who can ever recall what anything here looks like after it has been altered. Who can recall how Dubai Marina was one big pile of sand before all these towers came rushing thru, who can remember how the beach looked like before the islands where put on there, who can remember how the horizon looks like without a single building in sight or try to imagine (one rule is you have to have lived in this country for 22 years and not travelled much and/or for a long time).
In this project i was experimenting with light painting, trying to fuse a new form of human beings who will visit what we left over; how these humans would evolve to look like and how our homes would end up looking like. this is what i reached by the end of my project.
This project was never finished ... by the end of it, it appeared to amateur specially the light painting aspect of it that seemed to fall off. I see what I'm doing now a continuation of this project that never finished, in a very slim way they are related its still to do with memory but a different kind of memory that is not strict to only my childhood. It's almost as if a part of me dies everyday when i forget something, or knowing that i don't know who i was when i was young. Maybe this feeling of death is the reason my work is starting to become so dark, in terms of the shadows i placed over and a few experiments I'm following through right now; where instead of being on top of the water i am under and suffocating under my own reflection. There is a lot more to this project than what i thought, memory has always been an issue to me the fact that i forget things i want to remember that irritate me a lot when i try to capture them but they appear different and how they can end up looking like is way beyond realistic. Maybe this time i worked in reverse, i probably should have explored my childhood before trying to imagine how this place would look like in a couple of years; maybe I'm too tired by the end of all of this and need to sleep, or maybe I'm just talking shit. I know this is probably a bit too late to mention but i know its important to add as part of the process, something that i never finished.
Lately i have been working on the dark side of this topic, creating a surreal space where it is just me and my memory in possible my mind or space, and pushing the experimentation further. I've come across a few difficulties trying to set up the shots i have in my mind due to lack of knowledge and common sense ... but it should all be posted on here on tuesday.
Good Night!!!
Monday, 27 October 2008
Wednesday, 22 October 2008
Videos....
Here r some of the successful videos i worked on since the start of the semester...I know what im doing, and im pushing for more and more experimentation so the final video will be a collection of all of these put together as one.
It's about time!!!
Ive been having a few technical difficulties with my blogspot...my photos r of a crappy quality cuz thats the only thing that will upload apparently...
My project has taken on different reponses or ways to reminise my childhood but cant get there...i tried reaching out for the image while the projector was on but my face would get covered up or be distorted on my arm....i projected on water but it was a bad attempt (NEED TO WORK OUT A WAY FOR THE REFLECTION TO REMAIN ON THE SURFACE).... i tried to cover up everything n highligh only child-self on the projector...still experimenting...right now need to nail down the water projectors perfectly well...then ill keep pushing for more and more experimentations...
in the end i think the video part of this project would be a collection of all these try outs shooting back n forth from one way of remembering to another by making it as irritating as possible ... since that seems to be the case everytime i try to remember, is that i cant actually hold on to that one thing i keep looking for in all the images or other memories around the image perhaps.
Im open to all kinds of ideas and suggestions n critisicim....
My project has taken on different reponses or ways to reminise my childhood but cant get there...i tried reaching out for the image while the projector was on but my face would get covered up or be distorted on my arm....i projected on water but it was a bad attempt (NEED TO WORK OUT A WAY FOR THE REFLECTION TO REMAIN ON THE SURFACE).... i tried to cover up everything n highligh only child-self on the projector...still experimenting...right now need to nail down the water projectors perfectly well...then ill keep pushing for more and more experimentations...
in the end i think the video part of this project would be a collection of all these try outs shooting back n forth from one way of remembering to another by making it as irritating as possible ... since that seems to be the case everytime i try to remember, is that i cant actually hold on to that one thing i keep looking for in all the images or other memories around the image perhaps.
Im open to all kinds of ideas and suggestions n critisicim....
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