"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.