Generative process

Beautifying garbage

I post a photo onto instagram of a pile of garbage that I beautified asking for other people to beautify a pile of garbage, take a photo post it on their instagram and tag me in it. This project uses a generative process because I do not know what I will get by other peoples postings.

4 Instagram photos of piles of garbage arranged in a way that appears to have beautified an existing pile of trash. One appears to be a yellow flower growing out of a garbage can, another is a brown garbage can with an arrangement of newspaper, plastic and empty cans. Another is a pile of plastic with a small radish sitting on top, and the other is a pile of various garbage against a backdrop of a city.

One possible content could be that the artist is thinking about how much trash we consume and throw out on an everyday basis.

Another content could be the artist is encouraging others to look at things differently. To see beauty in the everyday.

 

 

Chaotic Peace

https://vimeo.com/178746456 

 

Subject vs content

A 22 second video of a still shot of chaos in Times Square New York juxtaposed with the sounds of Indian chanting. There are tons of people flooding the streets and cabs sitting in traffic, you can barely see the streets. Amongst the people and cabs are bright lights and billboards, traffic lights and street signs. As the camera pans up you notice multiple Do Not Enter Signs. The Indian chanting is sung in sanskrit.

One possible content could be that although there is chaos there is still a way to live in peace amongst it.

Another possible content is that although we live in a world that has constant distractions, we have the ability to only see what we want to see, making this chaotic world a lot less over stimulating.

Chitta Vritti

https://vimeo.com/178511358 

 

Chitta Vritti is a 59 second clip of chaotic movement juxtaposed with peaceful silence and steadiness. The first few seconds are of someone closing a door over and over again, it then cuts to someone picking up a phone and hanging it up over and over again and then goes to a longer clip of a girl wearing all white in a park spending time feeling feathers that are attached to a nearby bicycle. Towards the end of the clip the video interacts with nature leaving a sense of peace, the complete opposite of the beginning of the video.

One possible content is that the artist is trying to emphasize the duality of our mind when we are overwhelmed and going too fast pushing through life and the difference we can feel when we stop to take in each moment.

Another possible content could be that the artist is trying to explain the difference one actually feels when watching fast movements vs. slow movements so that they can start to notice that feeling and become aware of it so that they can change it once they notice themselves overwhelmed in their own life.

New media movement video

Subject vs. content

A 35 second video that moves quickly from one action movement to another that seems to be part of everyday life. Actions range from pumping gas to walking up a mountain to washing and drying hands in a public restroom.

One possible content could be that the artist is bringing awareness to everyday mundane movements and actions we might not pay attention to within our daily routines as a way of bringing people to present moment awareness.

Another possible content could be showing that if we don’t pay attention to every movement our day and therefore our lives speed up so fast that we miss it.