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A tour of the Non - Monuments of Green Lane.
An Essex agricultural landscape take on Robert Smithson's 'Tour of the Monuments of Passaic'
"Insignificant events can take on monumental proportions when your head is full of practically nothing."
-Grace Slick
The secret life of plants / Stevie Wonder
I can't conceive the nucleus of all
Begins inside a tiny seed
And what we think as insignificant
Provides the purest air we breathe
But who am I to doubt or question the inevitable being
For these are but a few discoveries
We find inside the Secret Life of Plants
A species smaller than the eye can see
Or larger than most living things
And yet we take from it without consent
Our shelter, food, habilment
But who am I to doubt or question the inevitable being
For these are but a few discoveries
Wwe find inside the Secret Life of Plants
But far too many give them in return
A stomp, cut, drown, or burn
As is they're nothing
But if you ask yourself where would you be
Without them you will find you would not
And some believe antennas are their leaves
That spans beyond our galaxy
They've been, they are and probably will be
Who are the mediocrity
But who am I to doubt or question the inevitable being
For these are but a few discoveries
We find inside the Secret Life of Plants
For these are but a few discoveries
We find inside the Secret Life of Plants
Stevieb Wonder
No puedo concebir el significado de todo
Comienza dentro de unas diminutas semillas
Y lo que nosotros pensamos insignificante
proporciona el más puro aire que respiramos
Pero quien soy yo para dudar o preguntar de la verdad del ser?
estos no son más que unos cuantos descubrimientos que
encontramos dentro la vida secreta de las plantas
Especies más pequeñas que lo que el ojo puede ver
O más grande que la mayoría de las cosas vivientes
Y con todo disponemos de eso sin consentimiento
Ya sea como refugio, alimento, o vestimenta
Pero quien soy yo para dudar o preguntar de la verdad del ser?
estos no son más que unos cuantos descubrimientos que
encontramos dentro la vida secreta de las plantas
Pero pronto muchos los dan a cambio
Un pisotón, en pedazos, ahogados o quemados
Como si no fueran nada
Pero si te preguntas donde estarías
Sin ellos tu descubrirás que no serías nada
Y algunos creen que las antenas hacen brotar sus hojas
Eso cruza más allá de nuestra galaxia
Han sido, son y probablemente serán
Quien es la mediocridad?
Pero quien soy yo para dudar o preguntar de la verdad del ser?
Por estos aunque pequeños descubrimientos
encontramos dentro la vida secreta de las plantas
estos no son más que unos cuantos descubrimientos que
encontramos dentro la vida secreta de las plantas.
Ginkgo biloba 'Troll' 7/2021 Ginkgo- (Jeddeloh Nursery, Germany) Dwarf Ginkgo, Size at 10 years: 3x3’, Green Foliage, Insignificant flower, USDA Hardiness Zone 4-10, Michigan Bloom Month -, In Garden Bed D3,08 for 22 MONTHS (Duvall). Planted in 2019.
Buchholz & Buchholz Nursery: A deciduous dwarf, arguably the slowest and most compact of all ginkgo dwarf forms growing only about 1" per year. Troll is a witches'-broom found in Norway but introduced by Jeddeloh Nursery in Germany around 15 years ago. Leaves are typically fan shaped and representative of the species except for being about half the size. Light gray to brown stems are distinctly stubby and thickened. A male form meaning no smelly fruit. Good for Bonsai or rock gardens.
Missouri Botanical Garden: 'Troll' is a dwarf shrubby cultivar that matures over time to only 3' tall and as wide. It typically grows in a bushy mound, although it can be trained to grow as a small pyramidal tree. As with species plants, the fan-shaped leaves (biloba means two-lobed) are rich green to blue green during the growing season, but change to bright yellow in fall.
2020 Note: trimmed off some bottom branches to improve the shape and make it easier to manage nearby weeds.
Photo by F.D.Richards, SE Michigan. Additional photos of this plant from 2019, 20, 21:
Los pequeños detalles insignificantes...
esos segundos en los que el tiempo se vuelve eterno...
y podemos respirar profundamente...
sin prisas....
(Not this particular man but man in general!) This one is a kind gentle soul who told a couple of unruly little girls that they should leave alpine and subalpine wildflowers alone as the plants take years to grow. Their parents didn't care. And that explains so much of why the world is in the state it is in. It's so easy to take everything for granted and just not care.
This was taken at 10,870ft in the Indian Peaks Wilderness, very near treeline, just before Pawnee Pass Trail heads off to the right and Isabelle Glacier Trail continues to the lake and beyond. That splotch of brown is a slowly melting glacier. It was a very bright afternoon and it was difficult to not blow out the sky the way it is has been, without fancy expensive filters, of which I obviously own none.
"Now he’s here. He is part of the forest. Restlessness becomes his motivation in search of perception. Beginning and ending, place and time become insignificant. His long way, affected by growing insecurity and madness, will be his destiny. But he moves on, unaware of what he’ll find..."
This shortfilm is called "Im Herzen Unruh" (The restlessness of my heart). Introducing Simon Kuner. You can also download the movie in HD from www.akamat.de
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"Er ist jetzt hier. Der Wald umgibt ihn, er ist Teil von ihm. Innere Unruhe wird zum Antrieb seiner Suche nach Erkenntnis. Anfang und Ende, Ort und Zeit verlieren zunehmend an Bedeutung. Begleitet von wachsender Unsicherheit und einsetzendem Wahnsinn geht er weiter, ohne zu erahnen was er finden wird..."
Kurzfilm (bzw. mittellanger Film) "Im Herzen Unruh" mit Simon Kuner in der Hauptrolle. Den Film gibt es (ebenfalls in voller Länge) auch als HD-Download auf www.akamat.de
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"Im Herzen Unruh" (The Stream 3)
with: Simon Kuner, Christian Rentrop
Akamat Film / Bastian Bammert
Germany, 2010
Artwork: www.unfabrik.de
Music: Fugue State & Scott Waddell
Length: 37:19 minutes
HD 1280x720, 50p, Canon 7D (50mm, 28mm, 18-55mm)
Ginkgo biloba 'Troll' 7/2021 Ginkgo- (Jeddeloh Nursery, Germany) Dwarf Ginkgo, Size at 10 years: 3x3’, Green Foliage, Insignificant flower, USDA Hardiness Zone 4-10, Michigan Bloom Month -, In Garden Bed D3,08 for 22 MONTHS (Duvall). Planted in 2019.
Buchholz & Buchholz Nursery: A deciduous dwarf, arguably the slowest and most compact of all ginkgo dwarf forms growing only about 1" per year. Troll is a witches'-broom found in Norway but introduced by Jeddeloh Nursery in Germany around 15 years ago. Leaves are typically fan shaped and representative of the species except for being about half the size. Light gray to brown stems are distinctly stubby and thickened. A male form meaning no smelly fruit. Good for Bonsai or rock gardens.
Missouri Botanical Garden: 'Troll' is a dwarf shrubby cultivar that matures over time to only 3' tall and as wide. It typically grows in a bushy mound, although it can be trained to grow as a small pyramidal tree. As with species plants, the fan-shaped leaves (biloba means two-lobed) are rich green to blue green during the growing season, but change to bright yellow in fall.
2020 Note: trimmed off some bottom branches to improve the shape and make it easier to manage nearby weeds.
Photo by F.D.Richards, SE Michigan. Additional photos of this plant from 2019, 20, 21:
Foto sacada en el Taller de Macro impartido por Martin Gallego en el curso promovido por Vigo Foto en las siempre bellas Islas Cies del 5 al 7 de Junio del 2009
This small wooded point, at an elevation of 1,990 feet, would seem insignificant among the surrounding higher peaks and ridges, except for one thing. Here is where the three states of Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia come together. A small pavilion has been built by the National Park Service, and on the concrete floor are maked the lines of the three states.
To reach the point begins with a one and a half mile hike up the Wilderness Road Trail (See our earlier tip), to the crest of the Cumberland Gap. Then from the crest of the gap take a spur trail to the left for another mile, and an additional 390-feet elevation gain, up to the peak. The trail is well graded and a moderate climb. Along the way you will see the remains earthworks from the Civil War, as Cumberland Gap was a significant point of defense for the Confederacy against Northern aggression.
Darle mil vueltas a un asunto. Preocuparte por cosas insignificantes...
Tendemos a preocuparnos demasiado, y eso no es bueno.
Deberíamos aprender a no tomarnos todo tan en serio.
Deberíamos dejar que los problemas pasasen sin que nos afectasen excesivamente.
No deberíamos preocuparnos por cualquier cosa.
No deberíamos hacer una montaña de un grano de arena.
Es muy fácil decirlo, pero no es fácil hacerlo.
Así es como me siento yo ahora mismo, quiero dejar de darle mil vueltas al mismo asunto, pero no puedo. Es difícil. Pararé cuando mi cabeza haya explotado.
Las fuentes que han servido como inspiración para esta foto han sido estas: 1, 2, 3.
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Worrying about insignificant things. We usually worry too much, and that's not good.
We should learn not to take everything so seriously.
We shouldn't worry about everything.
It's easy to say but not easy to do.
That's how I feel right now, I want to stop worry about the same problem, but I can't. It's difficult.
The sources that have served as inspiration for this picture have been these: 1, 2, 3.
This photo was taken on October 12, 2021, in my backyard in the Belvidere, IL area. The fungi captured in the picture are commonly known as Inky caps but holds the scientific name Coprinus comatus. They are known as Inky caps because most have black spores and gills that liquify to a black liquid. Inky caps are short lived with a life span of about 24 hours. Based on how fungi and plants have similar structure and habitat, one might mistakenly believe there is few difference between the two but in reality, they belong to two different kingdoms. One main difference between them is that plants are primary producers while fungi are decomposers. Primary producers are able to synthesize organic compounds from light or chemical energy. Decomposers are organisms that chemically break down dead organic matter in order to provide raw material and energy in the form of carbon and nitrogen for growth and reproduction. This photo displays the primary producer, the Black maple tree, Acer nigrum, dropping its organic compounds in the form of litterfall or leaf litter. The Inky caps will break down this organic matter and release it into the soil as inorganic nitrogen. Plants can then easily take up the nitrogen through immobilization or plant uptake to use and complete the nitrogen cycle.
GINKGO biloba 'Jade Butterflies' (Stanley and Sons Nursery) 2020 photo - Common Name: Dwarf Ginkgo, Size at 10 years: 4x4ft., Green Foliage, Insignificant flower, USDA Hardiness Zone x, In Garden Bed HR-VC4 for 7.9 YEARS (HLG). Planted in 2012.
Missouri Botanical Garden: ‘Jade Butterflies’ is a slow-growing, dwarf, male tree that grows in an upright, vase-shaped form to only 4-6’ tall over the first 10 years. However, some authorities estimate this tree may reach as much as 10-12’ tall over the first 10 years. Mature height is currently unknown. Deeply bi-lobed leaves purportedly resemble butterflies with jade green wings, hence the cultivar name. Foliage turns a uniform and very showy golden yellow in autumn. Insignificant greenish male flowers bloom in catkins in spring.
Location: Michigan State University, Hidden Lake Gardens, Tipton, MI. 42°01'47.7"N 84°06'37.3"W
pruh-nuhn-see-ey-shuh n: GINK-oh by-LOE-buh
#GINKGO #DwarfGinkgo
Additional photos of this plant:
www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=50697352%40N00&sort=da...
Satellite View using Google Maps: www.google.com/maps/place/42%C2%B001'47.7%22N+84%C2%B006'...
Other plants in Garden HR-VC4: www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=50697352%40N00&sort=da...
Rima and Shiki from Vampire Knight -
In the beginning of the series, Rima plays a very insignificant role. She worries about Shiki over the holidays when he returns home and even more so when she is unable to contact him. After suspecting Shiki has changed after the holidays, she confronts Rido Kuran and tells him to leave Shiki's body since she can tell that he is not Shiki. She is wounded by Rido, but is saved by Takuma Ichijo. She tries to convince Shiki to snap out of his state and calls him an idiot for letting Rido control him, telling Shiki he should learn to love himself more. Badly wounded, she is sent back to the Moon Dormitory by Takuma. Shiki, returned to his original self, saves her by carrying her out as the building collapses. She later asks for his blood. In the aftermath of the battle, Rima and Shiki are seen searching for Ichijo, who has disappeared.
A year later, during the ball, Rima is annoyed with Kaname because he halted their search prematurely and did not reveal Ichijo's whereabouts. Rima expresses an unwillingness to attend the party, but is cajoled by Shiki to attend, where coincidently, they ran into Ichijo.
After the ball they visited the Kuran mansion to deliver a message to Yuuki from Ichijou. The two get annoyed with Aidou for his unwillingness to bend the rules, but Yuuki asks to make an exception for the two and invites them in. Rima notices Yuuki's heels and comments to Yuuki that she didn't think the prefect was the type to wear impractical shoes (pin heels). She and Shiki leave promptly because the place is reminder of Rido.
They are later seen doing a photoshoot at the school where Sara Shirabuki was posing as a student, and again ran into Ichijou there.
Now with added significance!
This is a test shot I did with the new 4x5 to make sure I hadn't lost the ability to operate a view camera or develop 4x5 film. I didn't have proper trays, so I developed in refrigerator trays I got for NT$39 (about US$1.20) at a Daiso. My "cold" tap water is about 29ºC/84ºF, so some math was involved in getting a proper development time. A few scratches on the film from a few moments of carelessness, but overall a success. I am officially back in the sheet film game.
A Piece of Today Nº 225
I could talk at length about the development and cancellation of TSR-2, indeed, I have done before, a not so insignificant chunk of my dissertation was dedicated to this one type. So I will run through a quick summary (and no doubt upon finishing I will realise quick was a little optimistic) on TSR-2.
TSR-2 stood for Tactical Strike/Reconnaissance 2 and was developed to fulfil General Operational Requirement 339 (GOR.339), a replacement for one of Britain's greatest and most successful military aircraft in history, the English Electric Canberra. The controversy relating to TSR-2 can stem from Duncan Sandys' 1957 Defence Review, at the time both the Navy and the Royal Air Force were developing strike aircraft with the Navy supporting Blackburn's NA 39 which would later become the Buccaneer.
Sandys, however, with his review in effect declaring the manned combat aircraft obsolete believed that only one of these platforms should be developed due to the expense of developing separate aircraft for the Navy and Air Force in parallel. Neither arm was willing to compromise on their requirements. The RAF believed TSR-2 was absolutely pivotal for their future. Chief of Air Staff Sir Dermot Boyle, in particular, pressured Sandys relentlessly that manned aircraft would still be needed by the RAF, especially in the reconnaissance role and as a replacement for the V-Bomber force. Nine months later, Sandys finally backed down and gave TSR-2 the green light.
Perhaps, in hindsight, the Royal Air Force expected too much of TSR-2, the aircraft was expected to be a Mach 2.0, All-Weather Nuclear-Capable aircraft capable of STOL operation from rough airfields. With the RAF believing that the Government was committing to a future without manned combat aircraft it probably shouldn't be a surprise that they wanted an aircraft that could do so much, this was likely the last opportunity the RAF would have to get an aircraft developed specifically for their requirements. Even if manned aircraft were still to be the future it was clear that these would likely be jointly developed for both the RAF and Royal Navy, if not bought from the US.
In the end, the project was cancelled in 1965, despite being due to enter service only two years later. The American F-111 AArdvark was chosen as the replacement, though this too fell through in 1968, so instead the Royal Air Force would adopt the Buccaneer, with the Phantom fulfilling TSR-2s other expected roles.
XR220 meanwhile was damaged on 9 September 1964 following the lorry jack-knifing at A&AEE Boscombe Down where it had been sent for flight trials. Repairs were made and XR220 made ground runs on 24 February 1965. The aircraft was intended to make its first flight on 2 April 1965 but delays resolving minor issues meant that this was not achieved, sadly only a few days before, XR219 had made its final flight, on 6 April, TSR-2 was cancelled. Only two airframes survive, XR220 at the Royal Air Force Museum Midlands site at RAF Cosford and the uncompleted XR222 at Duxford. Other parts survive, though the only aircraft to fly, XR219 was sadly scrapped.
In the preparation of food, it is the most modest and unassuming of details, the ones that perhaps seem insignificant and mundane that not only set the foundation for a beautiful dish, but often determine whether a meal is satisfying, nourishing and memorable. It is the quality of the flour in your loaf of bread or pasta, the freshness of the vegetables, the water your coffee is made with and your garden watered with that ultimately determine the quality of your meal. This afternoon we had the pleasure of trying hand crafted Ramen, the work of Chef Jyunya Nakamura at @wasabi_ramen who clearly puts his heart and skilled craftsmanship into the handmade noodles he makes from scratch every morning, as homemade broth gently simmers for hours, filling the small Izakaya with the warm aroma. The broth is made with locally sourced meat, the water in the restaurant filtered (this tremendously affects the taste of products such as noodles, bread, baked goods, etc) .We were kindly given a package of handmade ramen and sauce to prepare at home. Dinner was handcrafted Ramen, to which I added seared fermented King Oyster mushroom scallops in a sesame seed crust, blistered Shishito peppers, quick pickled carrots, salt cured duck yolk, garden summer squash and Borage micro greens. Slide over for a photo of the noodles, I couldn’t stop admiring them- the scent warm, fresh, almost nutty. Thank you for a beautiful dinner Chef. For authentic Japanese food made with a skilled hand and even more heart, try @wasabi_ramen . #borage #fermentation #wholefoods #nourishingtraditions #shishitopeppers #duckeggs #ramen #japanese #izakaya #ramennoodles #microgreens #borage #fermentedfoods #oystermushrooms #kingoystermushroom #kelownalife #okanaganlifestyle #kelowna #seasonaleating
“The Insignificant is Significant”, A Library and Art Installation, a continuation of the series, “The Quiet and Ugly Artist (Hanoi, 1965-2015)”.
Since 2009, Daniel Kerkhoff, from Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A., has been creating his own artist-in-residencies in communities in Ghana, Ecuador, and Vietnam.
Embedding himself in a community, he develops multiple connections through creating art (installations), writing poetic journals, making art with children, curating exhibitions, working with artists, assisting art libraries and community libraries, documenting walks and the community, and just being a part of everyday life.
Along with painting, collage, art installations, photography, and writing, his art practice involves connecting, sharing, and weaving people and places.
“The Insignificant is Significant”, A Library and Art Installation, a continuation of the series, “The Quiet and Ugly Artist (Hanoi, 1965-2015)”.
Assisting and creating libraries is part of my art practice.
During my art residencies, I continue to bring books and materials, art work, maps, magazines and journals, CDs, DVDs, and photos to the community centers in Adugyama, Ashanti Region Ghana and Sisid-anejo, Cañar, Ecuador. I also give a variety of art books, journals, and materials to fellow artists and art spaces.
In Accra, Ghana, I bring art books and magazines to The Nubuke Foundation and The Center for Contemporary Art, Ghana. In Cuenca, Ecuador, I'm connected to In-Arte Contemporáneo and bring art magazines and information. In Hanoi, I have provided various art publications and books to Cuci Fine Art, Chay Art, and Chaap Collective.
I bring art publications, art work, and music created by friends and colleagues of mine. I document their work in these different communities, creating another form of connection and awareness.
I consider this a weaving project, a form of sharing that can have many on-going effects. –Daniel Kerkhoff, www.danielkerkhoff.com
“Playing Catch, Giving and Receiving”
You are invited to play catch with my prints. Two dimensional prints that hang on the wall are transformed into three dimensional balls, a form of sculpture that is also performance and participatory.
Playing catch is a common past time that's relaxing and connecting. It is an act of giving (throwing) and receiving (catching) involving a ball, and, in this case, prints transformed into a ball (sculpture).
Instead of viewing the stationary print on a wall or a sculpture on the floor, it is viewed moving through time and space, dependent on the participants and their actions.
It is visual, transformative, therapeutic, sharing, interactive, and connecting, simple and playful actions of giving and receiving.
--Daniel Kerkhoff, www.danielkerkhoff.com
“The Insignificant is Significant”, A Library and Art Installation, a continuation of the series, “The Quiet and Ugly Artist (Hanoi, 1965-2015)”
“Walking the Path, Prints on Prints”
You are invited to walk on my prints, using them as a path.
It’s another way of experiencing art like a stepping stone meditation,
a different awareness may take place on an intentional walk, slower,
deliberate, a winding pathway, your prints touching these prints.
You become, in a way, the performer, the participant, the collaborator,
your soles connecting and becoming a part of these prints, adding steps,
humbling, engaging, liberating, creating another connection.
The title of this series is: "Paper Trail, A4 (All Over the Place)" from "The Quiet and Ugly Artist (Hanoi, 1965-2015)". These prints are collages made from my daily life in Hanoi -- collections of receipts, maps, brochures, business cards, food wrappers and waste.
They are my journal, a record of my consumption and daily activities, stamped with symbols that reflect my connection with Hanoi. They are painted over,
fragments remain revealed, information becomes cloudy, is lost and buried, like memory and history.
I created these collages during my artist-in-residency in Hanoi from
February 6, 2015 to October 26, 2015.
Walking is an important part of my art residencies. I document a familiar route in the community I’m living in by walking slowly, taking photos, and picking up “treasures”.
--Daniel Kerkhoff, www.danielkerkhoff.com
In the eight weeks leading up to my cardiac arrest I began to make a series of short films that documented my daily life, seemingly insignificant events like eating my dinner, walking to work, watching a butterfly or noticing a road sign. Three days after coming out of a coma I had my phone and laptop and began to document my new environment. I continued to make these short films for about eight weeks after I was discharged from hospital and then I just seemed to lose interest and stopped making them.
Working in palliative care gave me an insight into how people come to terms with their impending death. Usually this happens in a subconscious manner, they suddenly become acutely aware of their surroundings and take notice of seemingly insignificant instances, I believe that this is the subconscious, the body, that is aware of the winding down process that is taking place, informing the conscious mind in a gentle way, that death is approaching and preparations for this finality should be made.
Whilst recently looking back on these films I was stunned to see this process was taking place in my own subconscious, the narrowing of my mid circumflex had reached 95% and my body had known for quite awhile that I could just drop dead at any moment, I was quite literally living on borrowed time!
I have taken 40 (each one to represent one minute for the 40 minutes that my heart had stopped beating) stills from the 40 films made shortly before and after my 'event' as I feel that death not only made me aware of it's presence before my cardiac arrest, but also stayed with me for quite a while after I returned to my body after my heart was restarted.
How silly to stare at a pile of clothes on the bed and tear up. But I wanted to look for you in there. I know how much you loved to dig your way into the still warm clothes and snuggle up. When I’d fold each piece, you’d move to the ever-shrinking pile.
It’s small things like those seemingly insignificant memories that make me miss you the most. I keep thinking you’re sleeping on the back of the chair, or hear you jumping off of the dryer. After 16 years of friendship, presence, and love, it’s so hard to not feel you around.
I adopted you when I graduated high school and was moving away to college. I couldn’t have my dog in my apartment and I knew I needed a companion. I looked for every kind of pet before thinking of a cat. I had never been a cat person, knew very little about cats but had recently heard about a pair of kittens when my sisters dog was being put to sleep. There were two of you and after getting to know you, I so regretted not getting your brother.
I’m not entirely convinced you were a cat. I think you were a dog and person. I remember how quickly you befriended the dog. After placing crackers up high on a refrigerator to keep the dog away, you jumped up there and tossed crackers down to the expectant dog. Bribery sometimes works to develop friendships--it did in this case.
When you were a kitten, I remember how you chased that rainbow cork ball around for hours. That, and the plastic circle things from milk bottles. What made you love them so much? I remember waking up to you on my throat and playing with my eyelids while my eyes flitted beneath.
You were there through several moves, changes of states, changes of people and pets. You inspired at least 5 other adoptions because everyone fell in love with your laid back and affectionate style. How is that for inspiration? Five lives saves, five kitties loved. You welcomed each member of our family with loving paws.
I miss your kisses. (I never did tell you that cats don’t pucker up and give kisses--I didn‘t really want you to know that)
I miss you curling up on my lap with the dogs (how did I manage all three of you AND my laptop).
I miss you jumping up in the middle of the night and forcing me to pet you by stepping on me (you had the POINTIEST toes)
I miss you wanting to be around whoever came to visit
I miss seeing you rub on the dogs faces and letting them lick your ears ( you loved that, didn’t you?)
I miss all of those little things that sometimes drive us crazy
Most of all, I miss you.
The dogs are licking my tears now and cuddling me extra close. They miss their best friend too. One of my most recent memories of you is how you cuddled up with Kismet after he had his teeth out and he was not feeling well. You went over and laid right next to him and he rested his head on your tummy. I knew he felt better from you r presence.
Sometimes the fact that you’re not here takes my breath away. Something as simple as throwing out your last litter or finding your hair on a shirt I hadn’t worn in a bit causes my tears to fall. I can’t pet you, I can’t hug you. I know you’re around and I can only hope you’ll come back to me in some way.
I don’t understand people who don’t love animals or don’t give them the ability to influence their lives. You have given fully of yourself. You stuck with me and gave me extra love through tough times and played with me during the happy times. Your love is endless and so is mine.
I will not stop missing you and I will not stop loving you.
Rest in peace, my love and I hope to see you again.
Love always,
Your mom
Oreo
4/10/92-6/13/08
The socks seem insignificant with this sweet face posing next to them.
Pattern: Crooked Wheels by Jeannie Cartmel
Yarn: Araucania Ranco Solid
One thing I have discovered with "The Unexceptional" series is that many of the scenes I would like to shoot are on private property and some people may not be too impressed with me standing on their front lawns snapping a shot. I have therefore started to experiment with some longer focal length lenses such as my 90 mm in this case.
Bessa R3a + Apo-Lanthar 90mm f3.5 MC + Arista Premium 400 + Kodak HC-110 dilution H for 10 minutes with gentle turn at every 30 seconds.
"The Unexceptional" series
Can the ordinary be interesting ?
un·ex·cep·tion·al (nk-spsh-nl)
adj.
1. Not varying from a norm; usual.
2. Not subject to exceptions; absolute.
adjective: ordinary, mediocre, unremarkable, normal, usual, conventional, pedestrian, commonplace, insignificant, run-of-the-mill, undistinguished, unimpressive, bog-standard (Brit. & Irish slang), common or garden (informal), no great shakes (informal), nothing to write home about (informal) a pretty unexceptional bunch of players
Closeup of a fossilized , Lower Devonian starfish (Furcaster palaeozoicus), from the Bundebach formation in Germany. Isn't he/she beautiful?
The level of detail is essentially microscopic.
“The Insignificant is Significant”, A Library and Art Installation, a continuation of the series, “The Quiet and Ugly Artist (Hanoi, 1965-2015)”.
Since 2009, Daniel Kerkhoff, from Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A., has been creating his own artist-in-residencies in communities in Ghana, Ecuador, and Vietnam.
Embedding himself in a community, he develops multiple connections through creating art (installations), writing poetic journals, making art with children, curating exhibitions, working with artists, assisting art libraries and community libraries, documenting walks and the community, and just being a part of everyday life.
Along with painting, collage, art installations, photography, and writing, his art practice involves connecting, sharing, and weaving people and places.
“The Insignificant is Significant”, A Library and Art Installation, a continuation of the series, “The Quiet and Ugly Artist (Hanoi, 1965-2015)”.
Assisting and creating libraries is part of my art practice.
During my art residencies, I continue to bring books and materials, art work, maps, magazines and journals, CDs, DVDs, and photos to the community centers in Adugyama, Ashanti Region Ghana and Sisid-anejo, Cañar, Ecuador. I also give a variety of art books, journals, and materials to fellow artists and art spaces.
In Accra, Ghana, I bring art books and magazines to The Nubuke Foundation and The Center for Contemporary Art, Ghana. In Cuenca, Ecuador, I'm connected to In-Arte Contemporáneo and bring art magazines and information. In Hanoi, I have provided various art publications and books to Cuci Fine Art, Chay Art, and Chaap Collective.
I bring art publications, art work, and music created by friends and colleagues of mine. I document their work in these different communities, creating another form of connection and awareness.
I consider this a weaving project, a form of sharing that can have many on-going effects. –Daniel Kerkhoff, www.danielkerkhoff.com
“Playing Catch, Giving and Receiving”
You are invited to play catch with my prints. Two dimensional prints that hang on the wall are transformed into three dimensional balls, a form of sculpture that is also performance and participatory.
Playing catch is a common past time that's relaxing and connecting. It is an act of giving (throwing) and receiving (catching) involving a ball, and, in this case, prints transformed into a ball (sculpture).
Instead of viewing the stationary print on a wall or a sculpture on the floor, it is viewed moving through time and space, dependent on the participants and their actions.
It is visual, transformative, therapeutic, sharing, interactive, and connecting, simple and playful actions of giving and receiving.
--Daniel Kerkhoff, www.danielkerkhoff.com
“The Insignificant is Significant”, A Library and Art Installation, a continuation of the series, “The Quiet and Ugly Artist (Hanoi, 1965-2015)”
“Walking the Path, Prints on Prints”
You are invited to walk on my prints, using them as a path.
It’s another way of experiencing art like a stepping stone meditation,
a different awareness may take place on an intentional walk, slower,
deliberate, a winding pathway, your prints touching these prints.
You become, in a way, the performer, the participant, the collaborator,
your soles connecting and becoming a part of these prints, adding steps,
humbling, engaging, liberating, creating another connection.
The title of this series is: "Paper Trail, A4 (All Over the Place)" from "The Quiet and Ugly Artist (Hanoi, 1965-2015)". These prints are collages made from my daily life in Hanoi -- collections of receipts, maps, brochures, business cards, food wrappers and waste.
They are my journal, a record of my consumption and daily activities, stamped with symbols that reflect my connection with Hanoi. They are painted over,
fragments remain revealed, information becomes cloudy, is lost and buried, like memory and history.
I created these collages during my artist-in-residency in Hanoi from
February 6, 2015 to October 26, 2015.
Walking is an important part of my art residencies. I document a familiar route in the community I’m living in by walking slowly, taking photos, and picking up “treasures”.
--Daniel Kerkhoff, www.danielkerkhoff.com
Location: Raa atoll, Dhuvaafaru
"It breaks my very essense like a crashing mirrorball...everytime i question
and realise what a grand scheme i'm in. Such amazing tiny fragments lost in
such weird craziness we are. each one of us is infinite to the point of death.
what happens beyond that, i dont know...(who knows?)...If god was a giant
mirrorball, i believe we humans are the shattered tiny fragments of the
mirrorball. Our collective potential is that of God...we are in ourselves god
to one another and god to ourself....if i seem like an athiest forgive me...
that was not my intention. I just question because i had been given a consciousness.
But i do believe that i'm just as insignifact as everyone else...i'm just too
confused to muse and fuse my ideals and virtues into a working model of a man."
So, I've finally made it to Inchnadamph (well, I've passed through before) and to most people, it's just an insignificant wee scattered settlement about 30 miles north of Ullapool. However, it holds a special appeal to me, not only because of the stunning, rugged scenery you find in this part of the World but it's also where Idlewild came to write the songs for their third full length album, The Remote Part.
This photo was taken about half a mile north of Inchnadamph. Had I had more time here, I would have taken a walk down to Ardvreck Castle and explored some of the other ruins marked on the map but I was meeting people at the Kylesku bridge. As it happened, I arrived five minutes before they did so overall, it was well timed.
I managed to grab this panorama during a brief outing from the sun, hence the warm glows in the foreground but the rich, grey clouds over the mountains in the distance. I'd really like to come and spend some proper time in this part of the World as my visits here have been far too brief.
The Remote Part was released just over ten years ago (15/07/02) and I still listen to it all the time without it losing any of it's original appeal. Here's a link to it's closing track. You can listen to it whilst thinking that this is the scenery which inspired the record.
"Rosa José - insignificant"
photography: Francisco Rua
model: Filipa Monteiro
mua: Mariana Donaldson
assistent: Tiago Rapaz
thaks to Jorge Veríssimo PTM, IP - Instituto Portuário e dos Transportes Marítimo
So this being wears her big crown with the earth on the top, you may see that it look so insignificant but for her is the special piece, her personal diamond, her achieve, in there, exists a lot of elements that make it a beautiful place,that's why it shines so much, but like nothing is perfect not even for her this diamond got little "bacterias" call humans some of them good , other bad, everytime they are messing with the elements, diamond earth stops shining and mother nature starts raving mad, she cant allow that her big achieve goes death for tiny lil stuff, she knows she got the control, so shakes her head, its the best to make the earth elements attack humans and then go back to shine brighter than before.
Mother nature is full of love she cannot stomach to much hate so lil weird fishes inside her devores all these bad feelings, cleaning her, feeding them. on her u will find the rivers and oceans currents, the curse of the wind, the flora, and fauna, and everytime she plays cards she's deciding which one of this treasures put on her precious diamond, the earth.
“The Insignificant is Significant”, A Library and Art Installation, a continuation of the series, “The Quiet and Ugly Artist (Hanoi, 1965-2015)”.
Since 2009, Daniel Kerkhoff, from Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A., has been creating his own artist-in-residencies in communities in Ghana, Ecuador, and Vietnam.
Embedding himself in a community, he develops multiple connections through creating art (installations), writing poetic journals, making art with children, curating exhibitions, working with artists, assisting art libraries and community libraries, documenting walks and the community, and just being a part of everyday life.
Along with painting, collage, art installations, photography, and writing, his art practice involves connecting, sharing, and weaving people and places.
“The Insignificant is Significant”, A Library and Art Installation, a continuation of the series, “The Quiet and Ugly Artist (Hanoi, 1965-2015)”.
Assisting and creating libraries is part of my art practice.
During my art residencies, I continue to bring books and materials, art work, maps, magazines and journals, CDs, DVDs, and photos to the community centers in Adugyama, Ashanti Region Ghana and Sisid-anejo, Cañar, Ecuador. I also give a variety of art books, journals, and materials to fellow artists and art spaces.
In Accra, Ghana, I bring art books and magazines to The Nubuke Foundation and The Center for Contemporary Art, Ghana. In Cuenca, Ecuador, I'm connected to In-Arte Contemporáneo and bring art magazines and information. In Hanoi, I have provided various art publications and books to Cuci Fine Art, Chay Art, and Chaap Collective.
I bring art publications, art work, and music created by friends and colleagues of mine. I document their work in these different communities, creating another form of connection and awareness.
I consider this a weaving project, a form of sharing that can have many on-going effects. –Daniel Kerkhoff, www.danielkerkhoff.com
“Playing Catch, Giving and Receiving”
You are invited to play catch with my prints. Two dimensional prints that hang on the wall are transformed into three dimensional balls, a form of sculpture that is also performance and participatory.
Playing catch is a common past time that's relaxing and connecting. It is an act of giving (throwing) and receiving (catching) involving a ball, and, in this case, prints transformed into a ball (sculpture).
Instead of viewing the stationary print on a wall or a sculpture on the floor, it is viewed moving through time and space, dependent on the participants and their actions.
It is visual, transformative, therapeutic, sharing, interactive, and connecting, simple and playful actions of giving and receiving.
--Daniel Kerkhoff, www.danielkerkhoff.com
“The Insignificant is Significant”, A Library and Art Installation, a continuation of the series, “The Quiet and Ugly Artist (Hanoi, 1965-2015)”
“Walking the Path, Prints on Prints”
You are invited to walk on my prints, using them as a path.
It’s another way of experiencing art like a stepping stone meditation,
a different awareness may take place on an intentional walk, slower,
deliberate, a winding pathway, your prints touching these prints.
You become, in a way, the performer, the participant, the collaborator,
your soles connecting and becoming a part of these prints, adding steps,
humbling, engaging, liberating, creating another connection.
The title of this series is: "Paper Trail, A4 (All Over the Place)" from "The Quiet and Ugly Artist (Hanoi, 1965-2015)". These prints are collages made from my daily life in Hanoi -- collections of receipts, maps, brochures, business cards, food wrappers and waste.
They are my journal, a record of my consumption and daily activities, stamped with symbols that reflect my connection with Hanoi. They are painted over,
fragments remain revealed, information becomes cloudy, is lost and buried, like memory and history.
I created these collages during my artist-in-residency in Hanoi from
February 6, 2015 to October 26, 2015.
Walking is an important part of my art residencies. I document a familiar route in the community I’m living in by walking slowly, taking photos, and picking up “treasures”.
--Daniel Kerkhoff, www.danielkerkhoff.com
I hesitate to share my experiences because they are insignificant compared to those of other veterans. I was lucky but my time in Vietnam changed my life in ways I am still continuing to understand as combat changes all who experience the turmoil, stress, fear and guilt of war. We must do more than simply mouth platitudes of thanks when those who are serving return home. We owe veterans all the medical, financial and social support, understanding and care the society can provide! If we as a nation are willing to spend tax money and go into debt to send citizens to wars we must be willing to spend tax money and go into debt to save the citizens who return from our wars.
One more thought. Something we can all do is elect a Congress which will simply appropriate enough money for the Department of Veterans Affairs to hire the doctors and medical staff needed to take care of all the country's veterans. Polaroid photo of Frank at Tay Ninh Base Camp, Vietnam by a friend from Co. B, 2nd Bn, 7th Cavalry, 1st Air Cavalry Division, December, 1969.
“Almost everything you do will seem insignificant, but it is important that you do it." Mahatma Gandhi
Seeing the man standing on the edge looking out towards the falls. How small he appears in even the smallest fragment of the world made me think of this topic quite a bit that day.
Often times the challenges we face in the world seem so much bigger than we are as individuals. It feels as if the one step we take on our own is anything but significant. But sometimes it only takes one person doing so to inspire others who feel the same way to do the same.
My PAD this year has covered lots of things, from insignificant day-to-day things to important events such as James starting to crawl, my Dad's 60th birthday and Andrew's first day at nursery.
One of the biggest things was my BFP in September which will almost definitely become the most significant event in our lives in 2009, baby number three, hence having my bump as my last photo of 2008. It's also the reason I didn't manage a full set this year, as I missed 6 weeks in October & November due to severe sickness. Other than those weeks, I have taken a photo every day this year (until 27th December which I forgot!)