2. Oct. 06, 15:19
Looking, drawing, singing, learning...
Since I did not take off the whole weekend I can finally fulfill Christina's call for sketches (even though I probably disappoint her disastrously - it's just sketches. I try my best to draw better next time).
I went to see the new exhibition in the Jewish Museum in Berlin: "Home and Exile". I had been hoping to see some nice visualisation of travelling in a broader sense and actually saw three things I liked. Don't know what I'm gonna do with that but still:
photowall
On the ground and on the ceiling they had put up mirrors which were reflecting the family photos/portraits hanging on the wall. It actually made me a bit dizzy because the mirror on the top is, of course, reflecting the picture the mirror on the bottom is showing and vice-versa. This was only a decoration to the exhibition but I like the idea of putting up photos. My room never feels like home until all my friends are hanging on the wall. Secondly, I liked the reflections even though I can't quite explain why. Something like multiple layers, ever-changing memories, ... The third train of thought was about the image people want to transport through their own portrait which, of course leads back to the idea of putting photos from friends up.
home-detail
taken from the travel diary of Fritz Freudenheim, 1938, who is emmigrating with his parents.
While at home everything is still drawn in "details" and shows individual characteristics, the big world he is travelling through is only experienced as an abstract map.
Janet did a nice work on that last year: the animation started off with a blurry image of a street which only slowly sharpened while the new inhabitant got used to the new architecture and then step by step got to know other people who would often pass by or have a store in that street or stuff like that. (Janet, are you hiding that film offline? - I can't find it. But Janet did: http://janetf.blogianer.de/post/brussel_unileben/2005/12/20/prasentation)
table-map
Ah, I liked the graphics so much in this installation and I so fail to draw it. Onto the table, they had printed a map of the world with a flag sticking out for each country and that just looked neat. From three different buttons you could navigate to point to the country of your interest. The beamer in the ceiling would project flowing graphics onto the table which just looked good. Ah! Bad explanation, bad drawing. Who cares. I liked it.
I went to see the new exhibition in the Jewish Museum in Berlin: "Home and Exile". I had been hoping to see some nice visualisation of travelling in a broader sense and actually saw three things I liked. Don't know what I'm gonna do with that but still:
photowall
On the ground and on the ceiling they had put up mirrors which were reflecting the family photos/portraits hanging on the wall. It actually made me a bit dizzy because the mirror on the top is, of course, reflecting the picture the mirror on the bottom is showing and vice-versa. This was only a decoration to the exhibition but I like the idea of putting up photos. My room never feels like home until all my friends are hanging on the wall. Secondly, I liked the reflections even though I can't quite explain why. Something like multiple layers, ever-changing memories, ... The third train of thought was about the image people want to transport through their own portrait which, of course leads back to the idea of putting photos from friends up.
home-detail
taken from the travel diary of Fritz Freudenheim, 1938, who is emmigrating with his parents.
While at home everything is still drawn in "details" and shows individual characteristics, the big world he is travelling through is only experienced as an abstract map.
Janet did a nice work on that last year: the animation started off with a blurry image of a street which only slowly sharpened while the new inhabitant got used to the new architecture and then step by step got to know other people who would often pass by or have a store in that street or stuff like that. (Janet, are you hiding that film offline? - I can't find it. But Janet did: http://janetf.blogianer.de/post/brussel_unileben/2005/12/20/prasentation)
table-map
Ah, I liked the graphics so much in this installation and I so fail to draw it. Onto the table, they had printed a map of the world with a flag sticking out for each country and that just looked neat. From three different buttons you could navigate to point to the country of your interest. The beamer in the ceiling would project flowing graphics onto the table which just looked good. Ah! Bad explanation, bad drawing. Who cares. I liked it.
