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Among all the forms of absurd courage,

the courage of girls is outstanding.

I was scouring my garage for stuff to sell in my garage sale this Saturday. Hahah, and this is how the picture came to be. Well, I had a thought about doing a creepy picture though, just because. I'm still experimenting.

 

Saving up for a netbook (any suggestions?!). My parents are finally looking into buying me my own car, so I'm pretty relieved.

 

View on black - bigger, better detail!

 

Blahblah.

 

89/365

  

November 1, 2014

FEST 13

Gainesville, FL

how small and insignificant we are, compared to the oceans

塔什庫爾干縣‧前往紅其拉甫口岸路上

A Live Theatre Production: World Premiere

Written by Nina Berry

Directed by Max Roberts and Graeme Thompson

Design by Luke W. Robson

Original Music by Anguaji Music

Lighting Design by Nick Rogerson

Sound Design by Craig Spence

Did you know that no two snowflakes are alike? How the water vapour keeps on condensing and where the snowflake falls is what determines the way the snowflake looks when it lands on your coat sleeve. The way they can arrange themselves is almost infinite. So, you know, nobody can say for absolute certain but the likelihood of two snowflakes being identical is next to impossible.

Rosie and Charlie are two people in many places. From youth to old age, from Trafalgar Square to Chillingham Road, The Terminal Velocity of Snowflakes takes a touching look at what it means to grow up, fall in love and how the tiniest, most seemingly insignificant detail can change eternity. Or then again maybe not. A play about fate, friendship and snowflakes.

 

World Premiere at Live Theatre Thursday 8 - Saturday 17 December 2016.

 

www.live.org.uk/whats-on-book/the-terminal-velocity-of-sn...

Uploaded again for Delete Me group. Insignificant comments have been deleted.

The insignificant little flowers on a Pieris Forest Flame.

 

365/91 - Year 7 Photo 1917

“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.

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)”.

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

 

Another insignificant mountain peak but caught my eye.

French's Road. Cambridge UK. November 2006.

Nazi forced labor - in the midst of society, in full public

The so-called "use of foreigners" anticipated what the goal of the National Socialist policy was: the creation of a hierarchically organized society in Europe according to racist criteria. The use of civilian foreigners, concentration camp prisoners and prisoners of war took place in the midst of society and with full publicity. The practice of racism became, as Ulrich Herbert noted, a daily habit, a daily routine, without the individual necessarily having to participate in the form of active discrimination or oppression. All in all, forced labor was a success in the interests of the Nazi rulers. A functioning racist system not only maintained, but even widened, the necessary production of the war economy, despite the calling up of a large number of domestic men to the Wehrmacht. The approval of this concept or its tolerance by the domestic population was a not insignificant factor in this context.

 

NS-Zwangsarbeit – inmitten der Gesellschaft, in voller Öffentlichkeit

Mit dem sogenannten „Ausländereinsatz“ wurde vorweggenommen, was das Ziel der Politik der Nationalsozialisten war: die Schaffung einer nach rassistischen Kriterien hierarchisierten Gesellschaft in Europa. Der Einsatz von zivilen AusländerInnen, KZ-Häftlingen und Kriegsgefangenen erfolgte inmitten der Gesellschaft und mit voller Öffentlichkeit. Die Praktizierung des Rassismus wurde, wie schon Ulrich Herbert feststellte, zur täglichen Gewohnheit, zum Alltag, ohne dass sich der einzelne daran notwendigerweise in Form aktiver Diskriminierung oder Unterdrückung beteiligen musste. Insgesamt war die Zwangsarbeit im Sinne der NS-Machthaber ein Erfolg: Ein funktionierendes rassistisches System ermöglichte es, die notwendige kriegswirtschaftliche Produktion trotz Einberufung eines großen Teils der inländischen Männer zur Wehrmacht nicht nur aufrechtzuerhalten, sondern sogar noch auszuweiten. Die Zustimmung zu diesem Konzept bzw.

seine Duldung durch die inländische Bevölkerung stellte in diesem Zusammenhang einen nicht unbedeutenden Faktor dar.

www.gedenkdienst.at/index.php?id=235

(near Thirukalukundrum, Tamil Nadu, India - Jan.08)

 

A rather insignificant story...

Poor little twins ; they were so cute and so shy that their teacher, having noticed my interest and amusement at seeing them always together, asked them to remain standing up while all the other children were free to act as they wished...

 

So they stood there, very stiff and solemn, suddenly aware of their uniqueness and some of their classmates started noticing them as they had never done... but it did not last long as I asked them to relax and join their classmates (after having taken some photos of them, most of them rather mediocre = please, see below...)

“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.

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)”.

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

 

People are small, but not insignificant.

We seem so small and insignificant in this magnificent space.

Somos insignificantes ante la magnitud de la naturaleza.

“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.

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)”.

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

 

tiny insignificant pieces

.

Ayer alcé la vista y te encontré mirándome.

 

Me busco.

 

A cada minuto que pasa por mi lado

 

le pregunto si sabe dónde olvidé mi nombre.

 

A cada suspiro que se escapa

 

le pido que me ayude a rastrear mis huellas.

 

Me busco.

 

Aunque sé que me tengo cerca,

 

encerrada en un día perfecto,

 

como si fuera la única solución a la desidia.

  

Ya no puedo esconderme.

 

Acabo de escuchar cómo me llamas.

 

Ya voy.

 

Deja que apague la luz.

  

♪♫Perfect day♪♫, de Lou Reed.

 

November 1, 2014

FEST 13

Gainesville, FL

Carsen Smith, An insignificant yet beautiful bridge residing in the gardens of the Catherine Palace in Saint Petersburg. This bridge and its calm serenity can be easily overlooked as it sits in a stunning expanse of other paths, flowers, and fields. Strewn with ivy and resting upon a bed of calm water, the bridge is tucked beneath surrounding trees that flutter in the summer wind.

insignificant z.

Insignificant (1994)

 

It's funny, I thought I had all of the Corduroy singles. In fact, I thought I had this one, but not only was I missing the Overhauls 7", there's 2 other 7"s I don't have that I'm going to have to pick up. See kids, I didn't have the internet back then and it used to be tougher to keep track of all of the records bands released. I'm old.

 

And this 7" sounds old, but in the best possible way. It's wonderful 90's rock. Corduroy have a dash of the Bay Area punk rock sound, but they lean a bit more towards raspy vocal 'alternative rock' than some of their peers. The A-side "Overhauls" has big fuzzy guitar riffs, a gigantic punchy chorus and stomp-on-the-floor overdriven guitar solos/breakdown.

 

The B-side "GE" takes it down a notch with borderline sludgy bass and palm muted guitar. The muffled, distorted vocals are just audible during the verse that lead into the chorus. I think it's the chorus anyway, it's mostly just a loud chaotic blast of noise with a few random shouts here and there that is sandwiched between the verses. It reminds me of a noisier version of some of the weirder Pavement songs.

 

I love these old 90's 7" bands. Corduroy, Jolt...the bands that never ended up doing a full length. Well, I won't let them be forgotten, even if I forgot to get 2 of their other 7"s. Discogs, don't fail me now...

There is always an action, event, or decision, that creates both heroes and villains. These events shape the world around them whether significant or insignificant. Like all stories mine began with an event, a small event that would ripple across my life and the lives of my family in the most significant way possible. And it's all because four men came to my fathers homestead one fateful day.

The day was like any other day. I had gone out for my morning hunting trip with Milo my furry companion. That day should have been like every other day, except it was not. By some twist of fate today was the day that would send me down the path of both glory and ruin. That day men from Whitewell had come down the road to my fathers homestead in Eastern Garheim.

As usual my father greeted these men with full honor. One of the men, who looked like an officer inquired about the homestead and the forest surrounding it. And then the question came up, is there enough help to harvest some of the surrounding trees and create lumber out of them. It was an odd request but my father answered truthfully that there was enough lumber but if they were requesting a large amount that help would be needed. The officer then made an offer to pay for the lumber in advance and he would send some laborers to come help. The agreement was set, yet one question remained, and that was why was the lumber important. Being inquisitive, I politely inquired about why such a large amount of lumber was needed. The response I received was ludicrous at first. The officer talked about how Lord Stiendar had heard about dragon sightings in northern Garheim. There was a request from the northern towns that lumber and more importantly, ballasts were built and sent north. Lord Stiendar decided to respond and was sending out officers to the nearest homestead to acquire the needed materials and request help in making this possible. My father being a man of honor and respect readily agreed and said he would being the task the morning of the next day. After the conversation, the men left down the rugged path to continue their journeying back to the city.

 

The sky seems to swallow the insignificant fisherman

today is my eighteenth birthday. and i'm sitting here thinking how fast life goes. i have seen so much, yet so little. i am mature for my age, and yet i am just a child. i have so much more to experience and yet i have already experienced so much. sometimes i feel as if i'm sprinting along, closing my eyes periodically and missing part of the race. i don't know how to keep my eyes open all the time because some parts are so boring or painful it's impossible to keep them open. it terrifies me because life passes so fast. it terrifies me that i won't be able to live it in the best way possible. "to live is the rarest thing in the world. most people exist, that is all." -oscar wilde. this quote makes me feel incredibly insignificant because life is so short and in whatever time we have, we have to try to make a mark upon the world. the question is: how? and i don't know how to answer that.

 

this waterfall is like life, but i am just like one little tiny water particle. i have a sometimes fun, sometimes painful, sometimes tumultuous journey downhill until i hit the surface of the water below and the journey ends. and in a second, it's gone.

 

"To God, no matter whether a person is great or insignificant, as long as they can listen to Him, obey His instructions and what He entrusts, and can cooperate with His work, His will, and His plan, so that His will and His plan can be accomplished smoothly, then that conduct is worthy of His commemoration and worthy of receiving His blessing. God treasures such people, and He cherishes their actions and their love and affection for Him. This is God’s attitude. So why did God bless Noah? Because this is how God treats such actions and obedience of man" (Continuation of The Word Appears in the Flesh).

 

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“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.

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)”.

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

 

for when we feel small and insignificant

“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.

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)”.

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

 

“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.

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)”.

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

 

This site was insignificant until Herod the Great began to develop it into a magnificent harbor befitting his kingdom. The harbor was built using materials that would allow the concrete to harden underwater. The three-acre harbor would accommodate 300 ships, much larger than the modern harbor existing today.

 

Weird little markets are not for everyone… In fact most people just don’t get it… tiny, insignificant, weird little markets; what’s the point? The point is: You’re right… most people don’t give a damn about these little niches. They don’t target or market to them and that means – low competition, underserved niches for in the know marketers – like ‘Mark Bishop (the guy behind this product). …So it might be weird, but the fact is people like Mark make a ton of money doing this. You see; an audience in one of these niches is very likely to tick one of these boxes Embarrassed – Think about it, if you had an embarrassing problem, issue or condition where is the first place you will look… The Internet of course! Desperate – Big date on Friday; you just have to get rid of those Blackheads by then & it’s already Wednesday Weird / odd – This is an actual phrase that’s making Mark money every month: ‘How to make your butt bigger using Fish oil’ Ridiculous… I know, but it’s true – Google the phrase for yourself… you’ll find Mark’s site:http://ift.tt/1l9BXed, about half way down page #1 (UK) The bottom line – these people are more inclined to buy online & they do… they really do; and that means people like Mark make a great deal of money, pointing those people in the right direction. bit.ly/1zVuhER

Looking out into the world, wondering what was to come. Our lives so small, so insignificant, so boring, how could one compare a single person to the world around us. Yosi closed his laptop, stared off into the distance and began to weep. He cried for his dying mother and for his abusive father. He cried for his lost lover, and he cried for all the unhappy souls all around him. Staring off into the distance Yosi wiped his cheeks with a tissue, then slowly lowered his bright blue eyes and stared at the ground. He saw a black ant strolling along the floor, moving slowly yet quickly at the same time. What a paradox indeed, speed is relative I suppose? Yosi stared and imagined what it would be like to be so small, what is it like to be so little in a world so big. And then it hit him, he was an ant. He was so small in a world so big. He was a wandering passenger in the sea of life and just like the ant struggling to make its way through the endless maze of wood he too was lost. For how could Yosi live, if he was one in seven billion. What was there for him to achieve, to do, what would bring him satisfaction. He did not know, so he stared at the ground, then slowly lifted his gaze looked out his window and watched cars pass by. They too are so small he thought to himself. They too have nothing to live for. He closed his eyes took a deep breathe in, and that is all that I will ever remember.

“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.

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)”.

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

 

We are insignificant, our lives short yet we have the power to define, to appreciate and even to change our environment.

 

My wife at Mt. Rainier in 2003.

An insignificant maple leaf, waiting to display its bright and brilliant colors when autumn comes.

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