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Just messing around with a deck of cards I have and the homemade lightbox.
Catch up on R2 and his adventures here.
This is my twelfth documented walk. I've been to Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) several times, and this walk covered areas I've become familiar with and also new streets and neighborhoods.
I started at about 9 am on Friday, December 1, 2017 from Alleyway Hostel where I was staying and walked through District 1 to various places I've come to know, and I walked to District 2 to visit The Factory Contemporary Art Centre and ended my walk at Vin Gallery around 7 pm.
These walks are a way for me to connect further with places I've become close to. They are also a way for me to honor these places. I walk slowly and take my time noticing things along the way, often little details I passed by dozens of times before but never noticed. This heightened alertness to what's around me becomes like a walking meditation, both slowing me down while energizing me by this intentional seeing and noticing.
I pick up things along the way, what many would consider thrash, but I transform them into treasures. I pick up what attracts me, usually because of their shape, form, color, texture, materiality, cultural information, or because the object contains a story, an allusion, a memory, or some type of mystery.
I keep these treasures, and consider the process of collecting them a form of performance art because often times I find people looking at me and wondering what I'm doing and why I'm picking up this certain object that seems worthless to them.
After a documented walk, I often feel this energized, adrenaline rush, a sense of deep connection and awareness, while at the same time realizing I just scratched the surface, this one day, this one time.
January - current project consisting of old and vintage objects in a made box. Just a few drawings of these objects.