monthly archives: dicembre 2009
self-portrait on film I made in lisbon in 1990 – I was 27
a way to test my negative-scanner that was standing since time
will answer to your comments soon – am pretty busy these days
thank you anyway to participate in my troubled conversation
| started this blog with enthusiasm, of course – but am realising after a short time that it is taking the wrong way this is a place of fiction and I can’t find a worst and devaluated thing than fiction, actually do I really think that the world is this? that life is this? and that my work is this? no – I don’t do I think that some silly pictures from my diary life are enough? I don’t feel am building a ridiculous and irrelevant frame to my days and feel that pictures don’t tell enough – and that also my words don’t tell enough blogosphere is redundantly full of nice pictures of nice homes, images of pretty cups and luxury recipes – of poetic landscapes, wonderful buildings facades and appealing mix of colors is this really enough for you? well, to me is not sufficient at all my visual work lost energy and strenght in time, due to this formal embellishment what is behind the curtain? where is, for instance, real people in all those brilliant pictures? I mean, not people with the right color coat or fashioned trousers, but people that tell stories, that explain the world as it really is, with its conflicts and contraddictions, with its bad side also, and not only the glossy one / this is what I actually miss / one of aspects that made me think about this matter has been that looking at my works people did not catch the human aspect, the importance of words I put between signs and of what is leading behind the surface, the effort of including dinfferent aspects of life / my (artistic) fault, of course – but also a question of irrelevance in watching (how many of you, for instance, translated the words I put in the dresses I make?) / beauty can’t really live in emptyness – and beauty is not necessary happyness
ps/ sorry for eventual mistakes spread around the text – english is not my first language |
december is here and I am doing a little things at home
made the first print in a3 size of a poster (it will be 50×70 cm) to recollect some of 2009 works
first christmas envelopes ready to be sent
added a small ikea frame to an old print (should make a box for the original one but…)
and – they ask me to send a couple of tiny books to chicago for a zine show :)
(they are soooo small…will people see them really?)
nathalie:
thank you for commenting about last posts
in the past it was very hard to find a good italian oil abroad, now they sell it all around the world and prices are not impossible
this is really a good thing :)
loisaida:
grazie – spero che il blog, oltre che un luogo dei sensi sia anche un luogo del senso, inteso come significato :-)
un saluto!
luciana:
quando ti prende la fame puoi sempre ricorrere al mio stesso metodo – penso che da te il buon olio non manchi :-)