boulevard

a new landscape inquiry loosely springing from an experimental combination of about 300 sheets of expired 4x5 film, an ultra minimalist wooden pinhole camera loaned from a friend, and the simple utter truth that i fell in love with a 14 mile palm-lined boulevard in Fresno

Wednesday, October 04, 2006

20 questions

Thesis Seminar. list 15-20 questions which address your work & expand on its themes. you have (20) minutes.

i head to studio 54 & slip on the headphones
background track looping LOST
  1. what can be revealed in repetition?
  2. what or how do subtle changes affect things in the final mix?
    [the role of nuance]
  3. what is the place of personal narrative?
  4. what is the relation of materials to the content/context?
  5. how does one connect/re-connect with what is lost?
  6. what is one's place in society --
    the sense of responsibility and relation to situation.
  7. what is the collective experience?
  8. how can it be triggered?
  9. what does it mean to listen closely?
  10. who becomes "the voice" to carry the message?
  11. where does "the message" go?
  12. what is callling ? ["why can't i help out?"]
  13. what will endure?
  14. how does one accept change?
  15. how do we remember the past, things of the past, another time in time?
  16. how far are we removed from the land?
  17. do we need to be connected or to feel connected to the land?
  18. --> the distance <-- <--- the distance between . . .
    what lives, what inhabits the distance between here and now, and then ?
works for me as a staring point . . .