"One day"

lines of connectivity

Vik, Iceland
(2006)

define: interrupted

(i) broken in its continuity; but the tips of the broken parts are in a right line with each other.
(ii) fitful: "off-and-on static".

Road-side compositions

As on hind legs (apt for celluloid)

“Gebäumt” –
“Risen up like a tree” –

Usually, “rear up”,
As on hind legs.

A collection of twenty palm trees,
Plastic energy in uniform

A photo-ready pose,
Community stance and absence -

Apt for celluloid,
Working from the perimeter

And turquoise drown
Pictured: a flat, corrupt ellipse.

Civic dreams

I filmed the vacant Community Pool in the City of Davis, from its fenced perimeter. I plan to make a couple of films from the footage - one a promo video and the other a looped film composed of three scenes --

Civic choreography

[Unbuilt] Berkeley Civic Park

(1919)
Courtesy Berkeley Public Library

This is a drawing by Charles Henry Cheney, Berkeley Architect and City Planner, of a proposed "Liberty Square" in downtown Berkeley. The square was never built, but a one-square block park was constructed, which over the years has been called Civic Center Park, Provo Park, and most recently, Martin Luther King Jr. Park.


Ruth St. Denis in Ted Shawn's Miriam, Sister of Moses, a biblical drama written by Constance Smedley and Maxwell Armfield and performed at the Greek Theatre, University of California, Berkeley

(1919)
Photo courtesy New York Public Library

Inventions

A collection of 16 dusty model sailing boats precariously aligned across a second hand four-poster.

Skylight/mirror; self-sufficient daylight dialogue.

Living within a mirrored rock.

A plaster room carved out by a large ball. Space for movement around the ball caused by air in the setting of the plaster.

Glass plane intersecting the room, latitudinally, with the rig-lights overhead at full beam.

Oral garden piece. From the stale white West Wing, white paint drips into drinking glasses from the leaking ceiling. Passing along a conveyor belt, the glasses journey through the window into a collection bin outside.

A hardened leak of white paint, caught in a cup.

Chair disappearing under vertical pressure. In a world where we only look, the stool will only appear or disappear.

Parts of a chair on a glass plane the height of a seat.

One shoe made of two.

Tree pouch.

A mirror blocking the direction of air from a fan. Suffocated air-motion picture mirror.

Resting by a dropped, drying light enclosure.

Miniature train circulating a skylight on a custom built track.

Light bulb containing sea water.

Room filled with glasses of water. Heating bars warm the room overhead, evaporating the water. As well as the fear of spillage there is the looming fear of individual containment.

Wax ceiling. Candle-melting to preserve the light it lacks.

(White) knitted gap between the unclosable door and the doorway. Suffocation in this white room.

White room. The end wall that breathes.

Cold wall.

Object-seat mounted on the wall the height of a picture frame. You may sit. You may fall. You may stand. And desire.

Glass sleep.

Glass and milk on a white fibreglass bed.

Cold water leak under the table, on a fibreglass floor.

Moth bags.

Things I left whilst I was up on the plastic ceiling.

Plastic sheeting between the top of the house and the far edge of the garden.

Cloud drawing on a window.

Bucket drums. Garden composition. Bucket clones. Differential rhythm of the rain.

Sun hole in a garden table.

Recollections

The surface of a few things
of a few encounters
accent and culture
dialogue
achievements in speech

-recordings
-interviews
-a collection of conversations
park conversations?
travelling and still conversations

'open' and 'closed' spaces
creative potential of extracted speech

Retrospective directions

After travelling east along road number one for about five and a half hours, turn into the mouth of a blue and white junction of colour that will break your normal field of vision. Graduate over 270 degrees the previous volcanic grey.



Jokulsarlon, Vatnajokull, Iceland (2006)

Home by the Highway

Home by the Highway, Reykjavik, Iceland (2006)

Pavilion, in the English language

Pavilion, in the English language (derived from French, "pavillon") can refer to any structure large or small, however there is usually a connection with relaxation and pleasure. A sports pavilion is usually a building adjacent to a sport's ground used for changing clothes, and often partaking of refreshments. Often it has a verandah to provide protection from the sun for spectators.

In one side, out the other

A new view to departure

On the Road from Selfoss to Reykjavik

Walking through

Walking through Sycamore park in Davis, with a camera in hand, I watched youthful residents negotiate the lumi-coloured playground equipment and short, puffer-jacketed mothers walking and walked by their relatively oversized, preened and fluffy grey-white dogs. Suburban tennis dreams and maximized stroll path circumference punctuated the parkland, whilst minor adjustments to the trees aligned them with its purpose.

Park squares and graveyards are not so dissimilar. Punctuation marks above the ground frame endless known dramas in which we occasionally, but always ritualistically, participate by walking through.



Hofn, Iceland
(2006)

Sycamore Park, Davis, CA

Convoluted lines

Convoluted audial lines transcribed in the Main Reading Room, Shields library, UC Davis

The launcher and the launched

In my film 'To the Sea', a trombone player stands, suited, playing towards the sea. His uniform is important because it marks his distance from the brass band out of which he has strayed and because it gives the trombone performance a greater sense of direction, contrast and purpose.

In the film I am planning to shoot, of an origami boat raced off the Berkeley coast, I don't know yet whether the launcher of the paper boat should be of equal focus to the origami boat he or she launches. I will most certainly shoot stills of the performance that I can edit to document it, but it will be important to capture the time based nature of the performance too - the time it takes for the vessel to dissolve into a sheet and sink. My inclination at the moment is to let the origami boat off the coast as readily as one might put a mug down on the kitchen table after sipping a cup of tea. Perhaps it may just be appropriate to have the launcher's hand enter and exit the film in a second.

Origami boats raced off the coast

Subsidy (YouTube's sinking ships)

Temporary Housing

Reformulation/melodrama/intrepid/construction/navigation

Temporary Welcome

In February 2006 I travelled to an apartment complex on 35 Church Street in Toronto to deliver a package to a lady called Ann Savege, as part of my postal project I mentioned yesterday. I started looking back at the photos I have of this trip, and am still very much drawn to this image of the lounge entrance area in the apartment complex - one I took whilst anticipating the possible outcomes from the delivery of this first package.

I like how generically late 70s the setting is, and I doubt any refurbishments have taken place since it was first designed. This image encapsulates much of my travels across North America too; the hotels I've stayed in and the reception lounges of office blocks. I dislike how falsely safe the musty feeling of this temporary welcome feels, and I think my distance definitely translates itself into this image.

Responsibility

To sit and watch vertical, albeit rippled, reflections of the noble masts places one around midday, and without responsibility.

Sail Mast Bones

Tightened and loosened
(Wind constructions)

Sail mast bones
Against the spine

Multiplied cheaply
Some tin-can clocks

Unexplained Pollen on the Lady~O

Silly Arms

A naïve angel from her cave
Learning to cross her mother’s tomb
Suffers of umbilical pose
As if she lacks autonomy

Her uncles and the Icicle
Mammals out force to protect her,
Silly arms that cannot reach some
Dismembered prosections floating

Whole minded plastic negligence
Of separations, the small one,
Beholding elegance by self
With sleep-full arcane water flight



Jokulsarlon, Vatnajokull, Iceland
(2006)