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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)”.
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
Half past midnight. Wide awake. Insignificant feelings overlap with all these heavy thoughts. The sensation of the cool breeze and the beauty of the twinkling stars, all that’s underneath is a deep, open mind. Trees danced with the wind, while my thoughts dance around my being. Bats, they fly above me. While the enormous, yellow moon flies above them. I turn around, I see nothing. Just like a cave without any last page. Surrounded by the coldness of night, I stare at the sky. All is peaceful. All is calm. All is filled with endless dreams. Travelling through the road where everything is pointless, seems like an everlasting book that never started, and never will end. The flat earth with all its mortals, will come to a plot like this.
It’s dawn. And the sun, it’s creeping slowly into the wide, beautiful horizon. Watching as a new day would unfold before me. Watching as every moment becomes what it was destined to be. Watching as individuals would fall together or fall apart. Staring at a vacant world. Breathing as my heart would beat. Regretting. And still thanking. Over the top. Or the worst there ever was. I blink as I’m waiting for the night to come once again.
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
Have no idea where or what this temple was. All I know is that it was on our way back to the hotel and we decided to hope off our bikes and explore one of the last random temples of the day.
Bagan, Myanmar
Day 18:
Both this box and I are completely empty on the inside. The difference is that this box that sits beside me can be filled with many glorious items, it can be useful. As for me I must remain empty, I must remain insignificant.
I feel stupid, stuck in a catch-22 as I lift the hot dog up towards my ugly little insignificant face with its pot marked forehead (a reminder of the stroke I had almost 2 years ago now). My eyes instinctually close as I smell the sweet aroma of relish and ketchup mixed with the sickening aura of oily hot dog flesh that likely sat on the rollers of the @cineplexmovies hot dog cooker before being stuffed into a soft warm bun, wrapped in a piece of paper foil lined on the outside to suck in the heat of the warmer it sat in before being rescued by a food service worker who handed it to me. The bun has a slight crunch like the morning toast I enjoy, just a little crisp but not browned deeply. My teeth slice through it, and chew as I hold the dog with my left hand, snapping photos with my iPhone cradled in my right. It’s hard to take selfies with the forward facing camera, as there’s no way to see it on the screen.
I came today to see Alfred Hitchcock’s NORTH BY NORTHWEST, a film I first saw in @engstromstan’s grade 9 class. I think it was an English class, although it might have been drama as I was fortunate enough to study both with him. It was very much the first time I seriously thought about films that had been made before I was born, a new generation of filmmakers for me to discover, an older generation who honed their craft and skills decades before I ever wandered the Earth. Hitchcock, a pioneer of cinema and of the thriller. NORTH BY NORTHWEST, a forefather of the contemporary action classics I knew, of films like DIE HARD.
I got to the theatre around 330pm, after having slept most of the day, my persistent cough having kept me up most of the night and leaving me frustrated enough that I needed to escape the confines of my bed. I ate the hot dog and downed a cup of tea before getting my popcorn, @cocacola, and a bag of @reeses chocolate covered peanuts. I need to stop eating this junk but I keep doing it.
The film was awesome to see. Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint made a great team, although I wonder if Saint’s character could have had more agency. An agency I should have too, when it comes to the food I choose to consume.
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i love this picture. when two hearts meet, it shows - even in the most minimal and insignificant way. yet we can see it right through them.
these two friends of mine are getting married in about two weeks time, heading to paris and london for their honeymoon and then sharing a wonderful life together as one. i wish them well and cheers to a fantastic wedding and a blissful marriage!
the original picture was shot by another friend of mine and his other pictures can be seen on his flickr website - www.flickr.com/photos/eleveninth/
i think he did a great job in capturing this moment of infinite love and understated passion, between these two lovers.
with permission from the photographer himself, i "borrowed" the original lovely shot and did some minor editing on my own, to try and "capture" the emotion of these young lovers, eager to start their journey together.
it may look imperfect to some due to the pixelated image, the blurry poladroid effect, the darkened background or even the colours. but i prefer it this way - nothing needs to be perfect if the emotion is right all along =)
congratulations to adi & liz!
Insignificant as far as the world is concerned, Yet in my eyes the most beautiful thing in the world right then :-) Have a great day, go out and smell a flower
Saturday 15 June 2013: The First English Civil War
This rather insignificant looking memorial stands on an overgrown verge of a 'B' road not far from Kineton in Warwickshire. It is a memorial to the first battle which took place between the Royalists and the Parliamentarians over who should rule the country. Whilst the battle lasted only a day, each side lost about 1500 men and there was no decisive outcome. The War raged for a further 4 years and there were subsequently 2 further Civil Wars before the Parliamentarians finally secured a victory at the Battle of Worcester in 1651. This led to the trial and execution of King Charles I and the establishment of the Protectorate, under the rule of Oliver Cromwell.
The Memorial reads:
BETWEEN HERE AND THE VILLAGE OF RADWAY THE BATTLE OF EDGEHILL THE FIRST OF THE CIVIL WAR WAS FOUGHT ON SUNDAY THE 23 OCTOBER 1642 MANY OF THOSE WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE BATTLE ARE BURIED THREE QUARTERS OF A MILE TO THE SOUTH OF THIS STONE
“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
More than Meets the Eye
In a place of dramatic views, the scene before you may seem insignificant. A closer look, however, reveals more than meets the eye.
New River Gorge National River lies at the core of the Appalachian Mountain range, one of the largest expanses of relatively unbroken forests in the world. Varied topography combined with a river corridor running south to north creates conditions ripe for variety. With over 1,300 species of plants, including 100 different species of trees, the New River is the most botanically diverse river system in the central and southern Appalachian Mountains.
Take a closer look as you explore the gorge and consider your own significance in the diversity that surrounds you.
Every Species Counts
Wood warblers, vireos and thrushes that winter in the tropics, migrate to the New River area and build their nests here. Around 200 species of birds depend on these forests for habitat.
Allegheny woodrats are in decline throughout most of their range but have healthy populations in New River Gorge. The forest provides food and the dense understory provides protection from flying predators.
Not all bats live in caves. Of the 10 bat species that live in the park, the Hoary bat and two others roost in this forest under loose tree bark, in between bark furrows, and in dead tree cavities.
The Red eft is one of 34 species of salamanders in West Virginia, a state with one of the most diverse populations worldwide. Permeable skin, gelatinous eggs, and gilled larvae make amphibians prone to absorbing pollutants. A diverse population can indicate a healthy ecosystem.
As environmental conditions change, how will plant and animal diversity numbers stack up? Only time will tell. Come back and see this dynamic ecosystem in action.
"A forest is a living thing like the human body... each part dependent on all other parts." - Louis L' mour
Canyon Rim Visitor Center
New River Gorge National Park Trip
July 2 - 5, 2021
No, no es un comentario xenofóbico, pero en realidad somos nada ante la grandeza de las cosas que nos rodean.
Somos como una hormiga que puede ser aplastada y sin embargo, nos sentimos los dueños del mundo, destruímos, creamos, disponemos de la vida de los otros seres vivos, de los animales, plantas.
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.
“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
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Truth Told Slant: Contemporary Photography
March 1 – August 11, 2024
Truth Told Slant examines a recent shift in how photographers have taken on the challenge of making meaningful images of the world around them. Rather than using the traditional documentary approach of dispassionate observation, they work in a stylistically expressive manner akin to literary nonfiction, weaving between observational and narrative modes while embracing their own subjectivity.
The title of this exhibition, which is inspired by an Emily Dickinson poem, accentuates the sidelong and deeply personal approach these artists use to make sense of the current social and political landscape. The five artists gathered here—Jill Frank, Rose Marie Cromwell, Zora J Murff, Kristine Potter, and Tommy Kha—consider issues that documentary photographers have grappled with for decades and that remain pertinent today. They explore topics of American life, such as race and inequality; identity and sexual orientation; immigration and globalization; youth and coming of age; climate change and environmental justice; and the pervasiveness of violence, to reveal deeper truths and reframe prevailing narratives in a manner that is more felt than didactic.
Tell the truth but tell it slant
Tell all the truth but tell it slant—
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth’s superb surprise
As Lightning to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind—
By Emily Dickinson
Jill Frank
Jill Frank’s portraits examine archetypes of youth, rites of passage, and the formation of identity. Her photographs complicate familiar rituals such as cotillion, talent shows, and homecoming dances, offering space to consider the nuance that is so often omitted from the tailored visual record of our lives. These events are often methodically recorded, making them seem trite and insignificant despite the personal weight they carry for those involved. By making meticulously rendered portraits of American youth during moments of celebration and triumph, Frank encourages a reconsideration of social roles and relations in teen life. The resulting photographs offer an uneasy sense of vulnerability and beauty. The scale and formality of her images emphasize a seriousness despite the inherent ephemerality of her subject’s performance and setting, reframing these moments as brave acts.
Rose Marie Cromwell
A More Fluid Atmosphere is Rose Marie Cromwell’s ongoing body of work about her hometown of Miami, a city literally and metaphorically at the edge of the United States. Her photographs present a vision of Miami distinct from its depiction in popular media as sleek and glamorous—one that concentrates on the city’s acute cultural syncretism amid economic inequalities, ostentatious excessiveness, and environmental precarity. She is particularly adept at channeling the materiality of her subjects to tell tangible though not readily visible stories about the city and its lesser-known industrial, residential, and commercial areas. Taking full advantage of the intense south Florida light, her photographs often verge on abstraction to express dreamlike states and a sense of disorientation in the face of globalization and the effects of climate change.
Zora J Murff
Zora J Murff employs autobiography as a form of social critique to examine notions of family, masculinity, and economic mobility. American Mother, American Father is a family album of sorts that takes on myths and stereotypes of the Black family juxtaposed with notions of the model American family. Incorporating photographs of his relatives, self-portraits, appropriated snapshots, and depictions of domestic settings, Murff reflects on how the identity we create for ourselves collides with the identity society foists upon us. He alludes to signs of financial success and social status to question how privilege and power are inextricable from prevailing conceptions of racial identity. Through this deeply personal engagement, he ruminates on the role photography plays in establishing and reinforcing stereotypes of Blackness in popular culture.
Kristine Potter
In Dark Water, Kristine Potter considers how the rural American landscape and the country’s popular music betray some of the most sublimated aspects of American identity: fear, shame, and violence. Spurred by murder ballads, a genre of folk song that often celebrates gendered violence, Potter weaves together landscapes, imagined portraits, and scenes she encounters in her travels. This intersection of images pulls from mythologies and folklore, revealing a land and a culture marked by brutality. Anchored by photographs of waterways with violent or ominous names, the series aims to make visual the connection between nature and myth. Potter pairs these waterscapes with portraits of young women soaked in water, imaginatively reanimating the victims of crimes valorized in song. Together, the shifting photographic languages compel the viewer to critically examine cultural mythologies and violent histories and their role in how we experience place and the possibilities for new outcomes.
Tommy Kha
Tommy Kha’s lilting photographs of his immediate and found families and his hometown of Memphis explore the intersections of personal identity, family history, and place. In South Portraits, Kha, a queer Asian American raised in the South, narrates the multiplicity of his identity. His mother and grandmother often appear as recurring characters in the form of fractional self-portraits to pose questions about what may be passed down from one generation to the next—culture, affectation, trauma? As the child of Vietnamese and Chinese immigrants, Kha considers the visibility and invisibility of immigrants in the United States. His images of Chinese restaurants, shrines, and kitschy interiors express feelings of dislocation to question how divergent identities fit into an evolving cultural landscape. Across these seemingly disparate scenes, his choice of subject and his deadpan compositions employ humor as a means of revealing the absurdity that underlies the ways people are othered.
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insignificant to anyone who styles their hair on a daily basis, but not for me who BLOW DRYED this mess and ended up with swoop bangs and wore it like this to work so that it LOOKS like some sort of "style" choice. I went for a massage at lunch which always mucks up my hair, so now I need to post the 'after'.
Mar 09 09
There is nothing insignificant in the world.
It all depends on the point of view.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“Pensa en gran, comença amb les coses petites, actua ràpid”. El lema va a la mida de la filosofia de Junts per Tiana. Quin poble volem d’aquí 50 anys? Pensem-hi bé perquè l’hem de començar a fer ara. Decidir com ha d’evolucionar el poble més viu i més verd que proclamem des que vam plantejar-nos treballar per Tiana des de dins l’Ajuntament.
Per a nosaltres, pensar en gran és pensar un gran projecte per Tiana i omplir-lo de coses a la mida d’un poble, adaptades al lloc on vivim. Pensar en gran és tenir en compte el cost ambiental, social, econòmic i històric. Pensar en gran és, primer de tot, entendre el poble i la seva gent en tota la seva dimensió i imaginar què volem i què no volem per Tiana. Què necessita i què no li cal. Després, de mica en mica, donar forma a l’excel·lència amb petites coses que reforcin la seva identitat, l’entorn, els valors, el talent de la seva gent, la vila d’art i cultura oberta al Mediterrani…
Pensar en gran és defugir d’aquella pedra petita, insignificant, que no ens deixa avançar. Cal aixecar el cap i obrir el focus per veure Tiana en tota la seva globalitat. No centrar el focus del problema i de la solució només entre les quatre parets de l’ajuntament. Pensar en gran és no distreure’s amb el detall que no ens porta enlloc. En la discussió per discutir. En el segrest de la política per la política. La trampa del poder pel poder. Pensar en gran és decidir entre tots, avançar cap a la democràcia deliberativa.
Pensar en gran és pensar, primer, en les persones per decidir, després, on cal posar les pedres i com. Si és que cal posar-ne, treure’n o canviar-les de color. Evitar les grans obres sense sentit, només per deixar la nostra empremta sense més. El progrés és millorar el que hem heretat dels avis i deixar-ho millor als nostres fills. Com Joan Garí, que va lluitar contra l’orografia tossuda de Tiana, situada sobre una esquena d’ase entre dues rieres, portant el tramvia, símbol indiscutible del poble. L’alcalde Garí i el tramvia. Segurament, no trobarem cap millor exemple per explicar la combinació perfecta dels orígens, la identitat i el progrés. Un progrés amb noves idees adaptades a la Tiana de sempre per construir i reinterpretar la Tiana del futur. Un poble per estar-hi, treballar-hi, comparar-hi, passejar-hi. Un poble per viure-hi millor. Per arribar-hi, cal pensar en gran. Sense por.
Article publicat a la revista Tiana’t dels mesos de Gener i Febrer.
L'article Pensar en gran va ser publicat per primera vegada a Junts per Tiana.
Don't Close Your Eyes
as i hear the -
leaves crash to the wind
walls of echoes
paint my deserted room
the linen adrift
flying floating
as cold whispers
wrap my whole being... [continue]
I found this tiny flower near the fence in our backyard, its much smaller than it seems in this photo. Even though we might think something as small as this is an unimportant part of nature, or life, but it has been created for a reason. This tiny little flower was standing there, it seemed so confident and full of pride, and at that very moment, I wished I were in its place.
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