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We are the insignificant nothings that the tide of the world will wash away. Lingering back as mere memories that will last for a few moments or so, people will wonder if we really existed, or were we creations of imagination by a crazy storyteller.
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Photographs of the hardback and paper back versions of 'The World of An Insignificant Woman' (Advanced Special Edition, 2011).
The First Edition of 'The World of An Insignificant Woman' by Catherine Thackray will be published in 2012 by Sabrina Press (ISBN 978-0-9571345-0-8)
“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
“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)”
“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
Taken during our walk home the other evening.
Even the mighty Calgary skyline is nothing in comparison to something as simple as a cloud.
“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
The night sky takes center stage as they battle the glow Grandby and Winter Park on a dark, summer night. The scene serves as a reminder for our place in the overall universe. - Silverthorne, CO
“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
Ginkgo biloba 3/2022 Ginkgo T1- (Native to China) Ginkgo Maidenhair tree, Size at 10 years: 60x50ft., Green Foliage, Insignificant flower, USDA Hardiness Zone 3, Michigan Bloom Month -, In Garden Bed T1 for 24.9 YEARS (-). Planted in 1997.
American Conifer Society: Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba; in Chinese and Japanese 銀杏, pinyin romanization: yín xìng, Hepburn romanization: ichō or ginnan), is also known as the Maidenhair Tree. It is a unique species with no close living relatives. The ginkgo is a living fossil, recognizably similar to fossils dating back 270 million years. Native to China, the tree is widely cultivated and was introduced early to human history. It has various uses in traditional medicine and as a food.
The oldest living tree species. Only living species in the division Ginkgophyta. A single tree can live as long as 1,000 years and grow to a height of 120 feet.
Photo by F.D.Richards, SE Michigan. Link to additional photos of this plant from 2015, 16, 20, 21, 22:
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#Conifer, #Tree, #T2J, #GinkgoBiloba, #Ginkgo, #MaidenhairTree
SOOC
yay for weddings! haha
totally got an external flash, finally :)))))
(will have picture in comments momentarily) done. sorry it's real big. :P
only 100 days left to go of this blasted 365!! xD
A friend and I visited a garden run by Cook College of Rutgers University near New Brunswick, NJ, and there was a small garden with two of these Adirondack chairs that I had no choice but to sit in. The hardest part was getting out. :o)
Not my photo.
For the Fix My Pic group.
Original photo by kenyai located here.
Very cool photo. I tried to play with the colors, but I couldn't get the effect I was looking for so I went the B7W route, hoping to highlight the nice contrasts present in the clouds.
I converted to greyscale.
Clarified 10
Edge preserving smooth 2
Add guassian noise 5%
Darkened edges (brightness down and contrast up a bit)
Added border.
A small tuk-tuk in modern day Cambodia seems quite insignificant when compared to the ancient city gates of Angkor Thom.
Angkor Thom, the royal city built in the late 12th century by King Jayavarman VII, is surrounded by a square wall and a wide moat. It has five monumental gates—one at each cardinal point and a second east gate known as the Victory Gate. Each gate provided access to the city and was part of a grand processional route.
The gates are notable for their tall towers carved with four faces, believed to represent the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara or the king himself. Below the towers are large stone elephants with trunks forming pillars. Each gate is approached by a causeway lined with 54 stone figures—gods on one side and demons on the other—depicting the Churning of the Ocean of Milk, a famous Hindu myth.
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.
"The cathedral's architect, Frederick Gibberd, was the winner of a worldwide design competition. Construction began in 1962 and was completed in 1967."
Nipplewort is a native plant, known to have been growing in Britain in the Stone Age.
Its pale yellow flower heads are rather insignificant, particularly as they open for only part of the day, closing in mid afternoon and not at all in bad weather. But as with so many things, a macro shot can change our perception! They are pollinated mainly by bees and flies.
The slender wiry stems are very tough, with none of the milky sap found in many other plants in the daisy family. It's a very upright plant, and can be anything from 8-36"(20-90cms). It is a VERY common weed in my garden!
The so-called 'doctrine of signatures' is typified by the powers people have attributed to this plant, which takes its common name from the resemblence of the closed buds to nipples, although I can't see it myself!
It was thought therefore that it would cure sore or ulcerated nipples. in the 16th century Prussian apothecaries prescribed it for such conditions, and called it 'papillaris', from the Latin for teat.
So now you know!
Much information from Wild Flowers of Britain, pub. Readers Digest.
It is quite exciting for me to name some of these common plants which we have always called 'That Weed' in the past! As in 'That Weed with the wiry stems', 'That weed with the milky sap', 'That Weed with the leaping seeds' etc!
How anyone can possibly be bored in retirement beats me!
In these few insignificant clichés that for me are the result of my self-taught amateur work I want to be able to be what I am living with my passion to show the world what I can offer
A church deemed architecturally insignificant as the BoE omits mention. At a guess I would say it was early C20, but maybe JV can provide details! Alongside to the south is a "tin church" presumably a hall, but maybe always was one, although it could have been the first church. [open, but service just finished]