For this brief, I chose an image I found on Twitter via Pinterest, taken by Kensuke Hosoya, a Japanese photographer. The image is one of those typical, trendy, symmetrical food editorial shots. I was of course, drawn to it because of its aesthetically satisfying colour palette and arrangement. But, I also love dessert and this… Continue reading U1, Week 7: Methods of Translating
P2: Written Response & Feedback Notes
The following list (see attached file) is an index of Michel Foucault’s preface from ‘The Order of Things’, which itself could possibly be understood as a series of indices. Foucault opens with a reference to a reference – Jorge Luis Borges quoting a fictitious Chinese encyclopaedia and the way in which it taxonomises a set… Continue reading P2: Written Response & Feedback Notes
U1, Week 6: One Thousand Polynesian Fish
For the second week of this brief, leading up to the final presentation, I focussed on the further development of the fish silhouettes and their role in re-cataloguing the original set. The discussion from the Week 5 tutorial had touched on ideas of a “bastardisation” of the set (specifically in response to the collaged fish… Continue reading U1, Week 6: One Thousand Polynesian Fish
U1, Week 5: Methods of Cataloguing
For the second project of Unit 1 – Methods of Cataloguing – I selected a set of zoological watercolour illustrations from the Harvard Digital Collection. The set of 14 images is titled ‘Andrew Garrett, Early Naturalist of Polynesia’ and features scanned manuscript sheets and various illustrations of fish and shells, that Garrett studied in the… Continue reading U1, Week 5: Methods of Cataloguing
P1 : Written Response & Feedback Notes
I set out for the prayer room. It is early afternoon, 12:15PM. Half an hour before the first call to prayer, but it is only a seven minute walk. “Apply yourself. Take your time,” writes Georges Perec (1997, p. 50) in Species of Spaces and Other Pieces. This is my attempt to do that. Perec’s… Continue reading P1 : Written Response & Feedback Notes
U1, Week 3: Going Deeper
Based on my work presented for the previous week’s tutorial and the feedback received, I wanted to further explore the relationship between time and space that is established within the prayer, or more specifically, by the wall clock and prayer rugs as key pieces of “infrastructure”. One comment that I received from the second week’s… Continue reading U1, Week 3: Going Deeper
U1, Week 2: Three Experiments
Drawing from Perec’s means of describing ‘The Street’ from Species of Spaces and Other Places, I preceded my experiments by assigning myself a system of rules & constraints to help me begin to document my visits of the prayer room: attend one prayer a day, at different times record a voice note of the space/people/experience… Continue reading U1, Week 2: Three Experiments
U1, Week 1: Methods (& Site)
A few days prior to the introduction of the first assignment, I was doing a quick scan on Google for any nearby mosques (it was a Friday) and I was met with this curious suggestion: The name struck me as amusingly utilitarian yet nondescript, equivalent to something along the lines of “German Butcher Shop”, but… Continue reading U1, Week 1: Methods (& Site)