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Middle finger Promotions - Metal/Rock show at Meze 12th August 2010.
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Still find it difficult to shoot in Meze due to the dim lights.
Strobist - YN-460 II at various power levels.
I am the last advocate for reducing texts, scriptures and languages to mere graphic forms. The whole dimension of the text's meaning, histories, combinations, connotations, sound and craft is disregarded. What is more problematic is that I am ignoring the power of words to move and persuade people.
After first year and my first internship, I felt slightly disillusioned and confused by what Architecture meant to me. I took a trip to Myanmar and the trip recalibrated a lot things. I found it particularly grounding and inspiring for some of the things that I want to achieve in the future.
The spatial and formal organisation of the Burmese language in signage was something I found very compelling. At least with the handwritten texts, so much thought and effort was put into crafting every character. You see pencil marks, underlays, brush strokes and outlines. There is a combination of type faces and textures to create visual impact in different programmatic contexts that I find fascinating.
The Burmese name for the round script is "ca-lonh", literally translating to "round text". There are 33 main characters in the Myanmar language. Instead of words that are formed by a combination of alphabets (like in English), this language makes use of additional vowel shift symbols, tonal change symbols and consonant modification symbols. The rounded form of the characters is a result of the use of palm laves a the traditional writing material. Straight lines and forms would tear the leaves.
By compiling this, I am exposing my status as alien and an outsider. However, the focus on the visuals may have the inverse effect of celebrating the text, for text's sake, specifically, it is celebrated as visual form and not just a sign that says "eggs", or something.
Regardless, I tried to interpret the scope of "text" in a broad but focused way - text, in its literal form, text in prayer, text in recitation, text in architectural program (the stupas of Kuthodaw Pagoda). Photos are arranged in chronological order. The journey started in Yangon, then upstream along the Ayarwaddy river, to Mandalay and Bagan, then back again to Yangon.
These photos aren't really anything special in terms of photography, and I am not going to attempt to make sweeping claims about directing a new visual order, but as a composite they attempt to represent my yearning to celebrate a culture of appreciation for the process driven intensity in text making and in the creation of form.
Middle finger Promotions - Metal/Rock show at Meze 12th August 2010.http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/In-Scripture/133516310011534?ref=ts
Still find it difficult to shoot in Meze due to the dim lights.
Strobist - YN-460 II at various power levels.
My wife's and my wedding rings in my scriptures. May 13, 2007 marks our 4th year of blissful marriage, and i was in a halfway romantic mood, so I borrowed her ring, and took the picture. Here is to many more years of marital bliss!
Tiny hummingbird nest, yellow and black swallowtail butterfly, baby sand dollar. Psalm 104:24 "O LORD, how manifold are Your works! In wisdom You have made them all."
Stacey and I are reading the Book of Mormon together every day. It helps me a lot, and I've really enjoyed times to meditate on a morning, before going to work.
I found a site that had gathered together many of the Scriptures on Hope. So, I copied and pasted them all into Wordle.net and these are some of the results.
Psalm 21:12;
"for you will make them turn their backs
when you aim at them with drawn bow..."
▲ aiming with shaking hands ...
third week mark
8 ноября 2018, Студенческая научно-богословская конференция "Экзегетика и герменевтика Священного Писания" / 8 November 2018, Student scientific-theological conference "Exegesis and hermeneutics of the Holy Scripture"
scripture bag using part of a vintage sheet fq. Fully lined with blue broadcloth. The pocket, silk bow, and the band around top is made using the scraps from group 9 of JC Handmade's scrap challenge.
Got it done just in time for my daughter's eighth Birthday!