ping pong ping pong ping pong.......

To all the teachers who made me write this essay

Consider coming into existence inside a ping pong ball

You have no knowledge of anything else.

Left or right has no value as you always end up facing….well just facing nothing.

You have no sense of scale or size.

No fear of heights or looking down.

You wouldn’t know what it would to be to be out or in. your concept of outerism or innerism wouldn’t exist.

You can walk or run, or even stop or start, but consider having no starting point or finish? Each step being as insignificant as the last.

All ambition or aspiration swallowed up in a white fog of the abyss.

Would you go blind?

Would you know what colour is?

Would your eyes just simply stop seeing?

Would you keep them closed.

You would have no sense of pain or pleasure. Never being able to reach out, or touch.
Falling or tripping wouldn’t hurt, always landing in the same spot.

Have you ever considered how you would describe the horizon to someone how has never seen it before, a place where top meets bottom, you can always see it, you know its there but never being able to reach it. Never being able to visit.

Would you understand top and bottom.

To be deficient of senses, to experience sensory depuration, how would you think?

Without the pollutions of suggestion would your thoughts be pure?

To have sight but no view. Would your mind fill the void.

Any form of sensory depravation like blindness forces the other senses like hearing become more sensitive, better tuned in, stronger, functioning on a higher level, now consider all your senses deprived of there use. Would we become superhuman.

Would thought and reality become blurred?

Imagine the world you would curate!

Would your ball be your freedom to explore new levels of reality? And not your limitation or your prisoner?

Time and space freed to be controlled and shaped into anything, but by who?

Could you tell the difference between reality and a preconceived reality!

What is "real" could you be sure right now!

There's a thin line between madness and genius…..

Now ask yourself, what's it like in your ping pong ball?

MANIFESTO

List
Organize
Collect
Order
Arrange
Clarify
Classify
Quantify
Qualify
Explain
Confirm
Elucidate
Illuminate
Categorize
Systematize
Taxonomize
Manage
Control
Continue

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Red,Toy, Research, Smart, Robot, Useless, Funny , Deep, Logo, Website, Business, Wood, Founding, Recycling , Stealing, Copyright, Aware, Re-edite, Noises, Chaos, Random, Bastard, Nasty, Naughty, Cartoon, Old, Cross, Crushed, Jesus, Plastic, Wall, Bitter, Black, White, Modified, Fast, Better, Brain, Nut, Name, Disgusting, Guitar, Unsay able, Forbidden, Tall, Alarm, Metal, Connections, Mass, Production, Advertising, Price, Dog, Duck, Mouse, Suggestion, Myths, Do, Undo, Manifesto, First, Donations, Post-it, Simple, Arguably, Irritating, Money, Numbers, Free, Productivem, Censure, Retro, Blur, Risks, Weapons, Fight, Colours, Ignorance, Market, Factory, Reader, Tape, Leodardo, Humor, Boundaries, Handmade, Dodgy, Innocence, Dark, Subvert, Lazy, Gun, Give-up, Chip, Administrator, Fairytale, Unacceptable, Rip off

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Business, Cartoon, Noises, Chaos, Rip off, Useless, Funny, Toy, Market, Disgusting, Irritating, Money, Numbers, Modified, Fast, Unsay able, Connection, Handmade, Risks, Retro, Mass, Production, Advertising, Better, Brain, Recycling, Subvert, Smart, Jesus, Bastard, Re-edited, Aware, Wood, Founding, Deep, Fight, Ignorance, Colours, Website, Logo, Suggestion, Nasty, Give-up, Forbidden, Name, Myths, First, Arguably

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Useless, Disgusting, Money, Modified, Risks, Advertising, Ignorance, Suggestion
Chaos, Connection

1
Suggestion

LEODARDO MANIFESTO

Leodardo are several trips.
Leodardo doesn’t know the final destinations.

Leodardo is the plinth and not the sculpture.
Leodardo doesn’t want to be categorized.
Leodardo is leodardo.

Leodardo believe in human beings, every body can be part of leodardo apart who doesn’t know Frankenstein junior by Mel Brooks.

Leodardo exists in real places (physical) for instance web space, and non-real places (non-physical space) such as ideas, concepts or opinions.

The web space is meant to be a documentation of what leodardo is doing.
Through the web site everybody from everywhere in every time can see what leodardo in making and leave a comment.
Leodardo doesn’t like all the comments… it likes only the sincere ones.

Leodardo likes technology…
Leodardo loves past, present and future.
For Leodardo technology doesn’t mean future.
Leodardo believes in Ready-made, recycling, transforming, and ripping off.

Have you ever heard the sound of a wax pipe organ made with a Chinese crap toy keyboard, glasses and engines… that may be Leodardo!

Leodardo is the gift you have never received for Christmas.

Leodardo is the mosquito in your soup.
Leodardo believes in art but food is much more important.
To make a good pasta is an art, to make good art may be just a fart. (And you can’t eat it).

Leodardo is the day Willy coyote will catch the peacock

Never, and I say never avoid the risk.

Leodardo believes that art is a trip.
Leodardo will not tell you where you have to go… just go.

manefesto 2007

We shall continue to voyage, amuse ourselves as fortuitous flanuers to
make myths,

spin tall tales,

textually visually

and orally.

We shall collect, hoard and investigate, disparate found objects, including books, photographs, fetish objects, comics, relics, mechanical diagrams, stories, personal and anonymous drawings and documents but not excluding any junk we find in the tip or on its way to the tip

With mixed media, including collage overlaying varying transparent and opaque materials, we will rip, tear and staple, glue, paint, draw, photograph, video, sculpt and screen print a multilayered narrative of confusing warbling pastiche.

We will maintain the fight for our fragile existence as artists and entertain magic and chance, explore the accidental and the unexpected, continuing an inquisitive struggle.

We will not give up until we become honorary members of the necronautical society or win the turner prize which ever comes first.

MY PAINTING MANIFESTO 2007

Yes, it is true that I am trying to paint something.
Yes, it is very true and often I get people to tell me or ask me that what is it about?
Or people just tell me that ‘ah, nice.’ Or ‘ that’s interesting.’ Or maybe he says ‘I like your work.’
And I say ‘ oh, thanks.’
Yes, it is true that I do not have a good answer for these kinds of questions or communications with others yet. Because I am still searching about my visual language there for communication element.

Visual language and how to read the language…
It is coming from your experience and knowledge I believe. And each of us will have different experiences when you get to touch with something new or different in front of us.
Judgement…
Also created by our knowledge and experience. I leave you for the judgement what you feel like when you need to make a judgement of my painting work because you have a different past experience and back ground from me.
Truth…
Is there always in front of me on the canvas. I do look and read what is there with my naked eye.
Circle, Rhythm, Curve, Lines, forms, and Infinity in the Space…

What could be infinity? And what could be infinity in the limited space?

Yes, it is true that I could carry on and on to produce ‘same kind’ of image paintings. However they are not the same for me because time passes always and time where I am now is different as a space. And feeling different, so on. However maybe for you it looks like the same perhaps. As I said before I leave this judgement for you to enjoy. And I am here for trying to develop my painting forms with other touch and excited to see the different results always.
Yes, it is true that I should record about my practice somehow. It is integral and I do not have them.
Yes, it is true that I am carrying on same kind of style of painting work from last year’s investigation at the moment. Which is good or bad? This is my choice to do this way in this time, because I see myself to carry on this way of practice is more challenging for me in this stage. And see what I can do more from it.
Yes, it is true that I am much more conscious about what I am doing now than before with paint and brush. This process is needed for sure to be sure and has a little control of my work.
Yes, it is true that now actually I want to have uncontrolled feelings and get lost in my painting also in the same time in the same space as a unity.

Yes, it is true that I am painting ‘something’ almost every single day. There is many problems occur and needs to be resolved in every each days.

Yes, why not to have an ambition!
Challenge to Possibility and Potentiality…always

‘Something’ is the form…
Forms assert that forms…by Plato, and I am hungry for possessing the most fundamental kind of reality.
‘Something’ is the all kind of energy for the creations… And power of strong will.

1m square white canvases and me with paints and brushes. I want to see myself in this relationship.
‘Something’ is therefore self reflection and understanding.

Yes, it is true that I am painting ‘something’ every single day.

Yes it is true that I am looking for ‘something’ more than beyond.

MANIFESTO FOR A CALMING ART


The idea that art should be disturbing, provocative and shocking, particularly to the middle classes of the western democracies, is outdated. Even a cursory knowledge of the current state of world affairs convinces that the last thing needed is provocation.



Produce art that has a soothing effect on society, a still small voice of calm amid the prevailing din.

Be more cheerful and recognise the bright side of life as suitable subject matter for difficult times.

Stop pushing on open doors and prodding unhealed wounds.

Shocking the middle class is counterproductive since it is they who usually start the revolutions.

Art to become a popular international medium of communication similar to music.Use modern internet marketing to build a ‘long tail’ sales model to widen the range available and the audience.

The way to address horror is obliquely.

Word count

Words and number of times included in 100 50 10 1

Accommodate



Action



Adjust
Adjust


Adopt



Amend



Analyse
Analyse
Analyse
Analyse


Appearance



Arrange
Arrange


Assemble
Assemble


Balance
Balance


Broaden



Chance



Change
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City



Colours
Colours
Colours

Comment



Communicate
Communicate


Concept
Concept
Concept

Conclude



Consider
Consider


Construct
Construct


Consult



Contrast



Define
Define
Define

Depict



Design
Design


Discuss
Discuss


Display



Distribute



Diverse



Electronic



Encounter
Encounter


Environment
Environment


Evolve
Evolve


Experiment
Experiment
Experiment

Express



Familiarity



Focus
Focus


Grouping



Hue



Idea



Imagine
Imagine


Impact
Impact


Incomplete
Incomplete


Integrate
Integrate


Interpret
Interpret


Investigate
Investigate


Learn



Link



Location



Look
Look


Luck
Luck


Materials



Metaphor
Metaphor


Modern
Modern


Note



Observe



Openness



Optical



Order



Original
Original
Original

Ornament



Paint



Patience



Pattern
Pattern


Perception
Perception


Permutation
Permutation


Print



Project



Proportion
Proportion


Range
Range


Rearrange



Reason
Reason


Record



Reject
Reject
Reject

Reorganise
Reorganise


Represent
Represent


Research



Review



Revise
Revise
Revise

River



Select
Select
Select

Show
Show


Sources



Space
Space


Speed



Subjective
Subjective


Surprise
Surprise


Think
Think
Think

Time
Time


Transform
Transform


Transport



Treatment



Try
Try


Variation
Variation


Verbiage



Visit



Visual
Visual


Water



Work

MANIFESTO...
Maria-Lena Hedberg


I admit to the futile aspiration to change the world
and the narcissistic ambition to say
what hasn't been said before...

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Enhanced, manipulated, derived, questioning, detrimental, confused, withholding, dimensional, communication, dream, fairytale, fantasy, imagination, diction, authorship, symbolism, mythology, chronological, historic, deep, myth, enchantment, fabrication, lie, romantic, traditional, probing, mystified, disorderly, preservation, release, accomplishment, thoughts, creation, articulation, expression, style, illusion, invention, significant, extraordinary, old, ancient, momentous, reverie, nightmare, hallucination, reality, aspiration, hope, desire, visualized, pleasure, ideal, joy, angry, fear, soul, psyche, character, habitual, accepted, established, interaction, transference, elemental, component, whimsy, castle, power, control, conscience, consequence, representation, cold, tone, warmth, ritual, forever, performance, predictable, routine, time, movement, stretch, era, generation, calculation, measurement, improvisation, achievement, good, evil, construction, concept, environmental, features, spirit, discourse, converse.

Enhanced, manipulated, derived, questioning, confused, communication, dream, imagination, diction, authorship, symbolism, mythology, articulation, expression, measurement, elemental, joy, angry, fear, soul, psyche, hallucination, ancient, reality, desire, visualized, whimsy, castle, ritual, preservation, myth, enchantment, lie, probing, habitual, spirit, discourse, interaction, conscience, features, improvisation, discourse, converse, measurement, predictable, dimensional, withholding, ancient, traditional, generation,

Enchantment, whimsy, predictable, ancient, expression, authorship, symbolism, mythology, communication, elemental,

Authorship

The In Between

We have been through the hours of night and day and seen all that there is to see of the sky. The importance of power and the right of every being to that power is the main belief of this group. In concordance we have come to these conclusions of life that should be observed by those important thoughts.

1. Members should keep an open mind.

2. Members must remember that the key to the in between is found in reading and feeling.

3. Members should take the opinion that all work must be realized in reality.

4. The member must understand that all work is not reality and therefore cannot be represented in it's true form, except in the in between moments.

5. The members can be seen at all times by other members and must be in communication on a consistent basis.

6. All members must remember that The In between reject the idea of God and all associated theories. They do not exists in the inner state and therefore are false truths and should be stricken from the record.

7. The other plane of existence should be seen in the members mind and observed at all times.

8. Members should understand that they have entered a new thought process and should believe in this so much that they would be prepared to give everything for it.

9. In creating work all members should always be prepared to destroy it and recreate it on the "other plane".

10. Reality is a subjective matter and is observed on an individual basis. The understanding of others work can therefore only be a paradoxical version and only guessed at.

In failing to do so the consequences are such that you will be stricken from the space and be taken from the space of power never to return so as not to corrupt it.

Manifesto

1.Explore time, change, metamorphosis and transience.

2.Understand why and how time changes us, physically and cognitively.

3.Use/ collect/ reproduce and manipulate objects that are left behind, metaphorically, conceptually and physically how we leave parts of ourselves behind through memory, ephemera, the imprint of life and the shells we eventually discard.

4.Document the passing of time, and the inevitability and importance of change.

5.Acknowledge the balance and fragility of an existence, and how change reminds us of this and reinforces it.

6.Investigate a place where a change occurs, e.g. within a chrysalis/cocoon, and regard them in another way from the typical association.

7.Be inspired by the structural form of an object; be able to manipulate and reconstruct/duplicate it.

ESTO-MAN-IF-MAN-ESTO-IF-ESTO-IF-MAN

(man-if-esto)


One eye open while the other open as well, both function in perfect harmony as the rest of the body almost reflects itself, within the symmetrical order. I will not concentrate on anything else till the time I feel like it.

Structure of the structure and selection of the selection, I did considered it in the past I might consider it back in the future, tomorrow for example.

Saussure and Barthes, I could rethink it back again.

I might change subject completely. Might not.

I shall go and have my coffee and cigarette than, and start progressing towards the future or reconsider temporality with the mixture of past, or actually link these three together if I feel like it.

You do whatever you like, I might get involved, however don’t have to. Depends how good the coffee is going to be.





(if-man-esto)


To Agnieszka and myself.
I’ll be truly and honestly supporting her till the point I won’t be able to breath any louder.





(esto-man-if)

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church of random. a first manifesto

 

                          CHURCH OF RANDOM.

                                          A FIRST MANIFESTO.

 

 

In the beginning, god created the heaven and the earth, and then he hung his paintings on the wall while he created the church of random.

      I.     The church believes all men/women are equal therefore, by default, all art, if considered is relevant.

    II.     Anyone can belong to the church of random providing there is a functional magnet in his or her moral compass.

  III.      The church declares that work can only be made after having devoured and digested the church ethos.

 IV.     The church ethos is final but other than that, there are no other absolutes.

   V.     All aesthetic creation whether concept or emotion driven will be tolerated if it contains the church ethos and a modicum of original thought. Pure therapy based drivel is an exception to this rule and will result in immediate crucifixion. The church does not hold with the stuckists on this point nor on the point regarding bad taste, as this is never acceptable even under the guise of art. The only stipulation to this is if work that has a negative physical impact on man, woman or creature (negative emotional and psychological impacts are acceptable and discretional where the recipient or subject is given the choice to take part or ingest said work)

 VI.      Only considered and deliberate mediocrity in creation will be tolerated.

VII.     Accidental creation of ‘bad art’ will result in immediate crucifixion n.b. Crucifixion will be waived if said art has any discernable merit.

VIII.     Only those with a basic understanding and appreciation of pythonesque conceptual humour shall be permitted to join.

 IX.     Aberrant thought and behaviour within one’s work will only be tolerated if conscious.

   X.     The wearing of artistic styles/concepts/movements as accessory or in response to trend will result in immediate and irreversible crucifixion.

 XI.     Attempts to challenge / subvert style/tradition and / or historical aesthetic in the art world for the sake of it, i.e. because one can and without ‘reasonable’ conceptual, emotional or political validation, will result in a minor infraction penalty i.e. time spent in stocks and pillories to consider, repent and atone.

XII.     The acolytes of the church will adhere to the ethos and within that continue to attempt to challenge themselves and why they make work and for whom the work is made. Cessation of this last clause requires that said acolyte immediately and without hesitation destroy the nonsense they have created and take their own life (thereby not afflicting ill conceived work or bad taste on the semi innocent populace.

 

               Laws invoked by Carlos Diaz, founder and only member of the church of random on this day, November 20^th. In the year of our lord   2007

Manifesto for my work

1.Exploring of ideas surrounding change, time, metamorphosis and transience. Changes happen during the course of everybody’s lives. I am looking at the way time passing changes us and how we think and act, and who we are.

2.What gets left behind. Metaphorically and conceptually, how we leave parts of ourselves behind, i.e. cast-offs of childhood in memories, things we throw away, move house, etc., and the shells we leave behind when we are no longer here. The imprint that life leaves, how it shapes people who know us, the concept of being left behind.

3. Passing of time, inevitability and importance of change. The feeling of how quickly time goes; the unstoppable nature of time; that some changes are inevitable and important to the course of life.

4. The balance and fragility of existence. The realisation that things can also change without warning and the way it changes our thinking, behaviour, etc. and the reminder of how fragile and uncertain an existence could be.

5. The place where a change takes place. Recently I have become more interested in specific parts of the extremely vast subject of metamorphosis and transience, and have focused on cocoons and chrysalis. I am interested in them as they are the place where a change happens, but they are also left behind, as a shell. They signify transition from one thing to another. I am also interested in the actual structure of something like cocoons, trying to create something which resembles them. I am inspired by the natural aspects of chrysalis and their shape; but also want to take something more from them than the way we typically see them and association with butterflies, and use them simply for the purpose of exploring change and metamorphosis. Also maybe being able to see change and these objects in another way.

6. Being able to recreate the objects that interest me in some way. As somebody who would like to be a sculptor, one thing that interests me particularly is being able to construct a form of structure which is aesthetically attractive and intriguing, in the way that I find things like cocoons etc. are.

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100-50-10-1
Maria-Lena Hedberg

Inconsistent, contradictory, incompatible. Narrative, descriptive, chronicle, telling. Searching, sharp, inquiring, intent. Ugly, revolting, vile, menacing, spiteful, bad-tempered. Painterly, Anxiety, apprehension, uneasy. foreboding. Messy, confusion, confused. perplexity, all-over, Humour, facetious. Red. Angry, vexed, irascible. Misfit, Striving. Stuffy. Stubborn, obstinate, unyielding. Clumsy. Unintellectual, hesitated, uncertainty, vacillate, demur. Unsexy, dumb, honest, principled, virtuous, equitable. Naive, ingenuous, unsophisticated, credulous. Dissent, abjure. Flat, deflated. Sober, sedate, subdued, abstinent. Original. Personal, individual, particular. Political, Explanatory, expository. Abyss, gorge, chasm. Solipstic (believe the only thing that can be known to exist is the self) , empiricist (all knowledge depend on experience of the external world). Chunky. Uncompromised, Compromised, concede, prejudice, discredit. Doomed, destructive. Bad, contaminated, mischievous, villainous, depraved. Incorrect, erroneous, improper, inappropriate. Impasse, Humbug, impostor, deceit, flummery, baloney, gravity, subject.

Inconsistent, Narrative, descriptive, Searching, sharp, inquiring, intent. menacing, spiteful, Anxiety, apprehension, Messy, confused, all-over, Humour. Red. Angry, Misfit, Striving, Stubborn, obstinate, Clumsy. Unintellectual, hesitated, demur. Unsexy, dumb, honest, Naive, ingenuous, unsophisticated, credulous. Dissent, Flat, deflated, individual, Political, Explanatory, chasm. Solipstic, Uncompromised, Compromised,
destructive. mischievous, erroneous, improper, Humbug, impostor, flummery, Gravity.

Intent, Clumsy, Demur, Credulous, Flummery, Obstinate, Dissent, Unsexy, Deflated, Honest

Flummery

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Subjective, objectifying, cold, distanced, loving, disparate, intolerant, crafted, tactile, flat, contextual, discovering, discussing, questioning, observational, disbelieving, open, closed, warm, incredulous, investigative, unfinished, beginning, comical, tongue-in-cheek, guilty, reprehensible, smug, cluttered, simple, irreverent, mocking, pretty, ugly, firm, emphatic, vague, irresolute, driven, concerned, inclusive, exclusive, excited, measuring, reassuring, ridiculous, confused, enigmatic, undecided, retrospective, fuzzy, precise, composed, conceived, expectant, realistic, personal, sly, proper, traditional, dysfunctional, contemporary, taxonomical, disjunctive, accessible, relevant, disapproving, visual, disidentifying, aesthetic, cross-cultural, self-referential, floating, fastidious, judging, relational, changeable, struggling, unresolved, inconclusive, exaggerated, popular, critical, time-based, descriptive, unhurried, laborious, excessive, controlled, literal, lateral, self-indulgent, self-gratifying, moveable, self-conscious, epistemic, disjointed, equivocal, deliberate, figurative



Subjective, objectifying, distanced, crafted, contextual, discovering, questioning, observational, investigative, emphatic, unfinished, tongue-in-cheek, smug, simple, irreverent, emphatic, measuring, ridiculous, confused, precise, proper, traditional, dysfunctional, taxonomical, disjunctive, relevant, disapproving, disidentifying, aesthetic, cross-cultural, self-referential, fastidious, relational, changeable, struggling, unresolved, inconclusive, exaggerated, critical, time-based, descriptive, laborious, controlled, self-indulgent, lateral, self-conscious, epistemic, equivocal, deliberate, figurative

Crafted, observational, investigative, tongue-in-cheek, traditional, taxonomical, self-referential, fastidious, time-based, epistemic

Taxonomical

fibonacci says...

space

I look inside and I see darkness, better still, I cannot see anything because it's dark... Wait! There is a faint light at the end of the tunnel! Furthermore, is that this space can be carried on from place to place, but we can't be part of it (we could if we were small people). I find it interesting that this space can actually fill into another space but never losse its identity of ever becoming something else rather than a space. I like it that way, it just lies around the place, apart from the occasional move. That must be its purpose in 'life', to stand there, occupying space and being a space itself, left to its own devices. I could throw it away, but that assuming thought in the back of my mind tells me that one day I might need it for something.

Aka, 'the unused long tube pipe lying arond the house'.

by Jones Tensini
October 2007

Approximate to the essence

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self-portrait diary everyday record challenge power energy
style composition colour happening thought understanding incomprehensible habit chance system automatic conscious subconscious control conflict space distance relationship touch feel asking communication temperature dense complex simplicity empty nothing everything environment circumstance surrounding
distortion reality lie truth honesty trust ambiguity
curve straight twist line mark rhythm
time present past future will wish forevermore always message imagination
body mind remembrance lose find memory dream pitfall
gummy dryness wet emotion fantasy sensuality
circle backward up down rise fall fly
face substance search strike balance imbalance collage combination
mood tenderness roughness experience passage
desire spirit essence something

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challenge search energy thought understanding honesty trust ambiguity
space relationship communication temperature
conscious control conflict complex
circle fly
composition colour chance system
circumstance distortion rhythm present past will wish forevermore message body mind find memory dream pitfall passage
emotion fantasy sensuality tenderness roughness experience
strike collage combination
desire essence something

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pitfall space complex communication
essence control honesty relationship
challenge combination

1
essence

representation of my practice by the single word - artist text

Found space

They look a bit like fireworks... those trails you get when a huge rocket goes up in the air and the lights rain down...
They were only 3 quid from a market in Chiang Mai and they're glowing red and giving off those firework-like traces on the wall.
Even with the cooler offering from the green bulb in the angle poised lamp which faces upwards into the death-defying cheese plant... This is still a warm space, a cosy space... at least when the central heating's on.
Muddled, mixed up with remnants and memories yet each in its rightful place. Carefully positioned... the turquoise didgeridoo with the Mexican stetson perched on top.... it may look like a mess, but it's my mess and that warm glow is drawing me in....

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metamorphosis time change transience cocoon epoch growing modification transition mutating alteration mutation transformation conversion revolution developing past emerge history butterfly chrysalis transpire existence shell remnant pupa different altered life emerging remains skulls Whiteread skeleton left-behind museum residue passing childhood natural appearance following footprints Hiorns horses hourglass feathers shedding stages juvenile process fragility brevity balance circular organic development Goldsworthy unwanted ending discarded ghost shadow inevitable inescapable Kapoor sculpture casing skin cast-off unstoppable visceral Isaacs casting replication reproduction mature fleeting evolution changing detaching paths relics remainder progressing plaster resin litter weaving latex identity debris waste shifting beauty memory clock façade beginning ageing

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metamorphosis transience chrysalis transformation fragility brevity remnant emerge shedding balance organic inevitable skeleton discarded ghost shadow skin life appearance existence epoch brevity shell hourglass residue transition left behind developing past time unwanted stages debris cocoon skull casting emerging plaster paths relics past altered weaving ending unwanted Whiteread remnant identity detaching

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transience fragility balance debris residue past changing time shell discarded

1
changing

Decide Yourself

Instead of going out with the specific state of mind to find space I decided to use space to find space. I did this by using shaped spaces as directions e.g. left – triangle, right- rectangle, straight- circle, turn around- square. I started off in Bank and along the way I discovered:-

Rectangular enclosed scaffolding

Circular band stand

Rectangular red and white striped tent

Triangular road cone

Rectangular plinth with Shakespeare on

Square entrance to dark alleyway

Rectangular red phone box

I ended up at a space that I could not access, this was not because it was physically blocked off but because it was the rectangular window of a gentlemen's club for the rich.

By Martin Clough

found space

In my room there is a space.
It is only small: 5 inches by 3 by 3.
It has been there since before me.
It is hidden within a brick wall,
Covered by a piece of wood.
I don’t know who made this space
I don’t know if it ever had a purpose.
I have never used it.