I've been thinking about inserting carrots into this plastic washing basket since i got it about two years ago.It seems made for them. Though I hadn't counted on its flexibility nor their weight. Then there's the lack of symmetry in an average Pakistani carrot. These black carrots are amazing, they seem another whole species from their bland orange cousins. The bigger picture is a putting together of the product of industry and the produce of nature. Both are interventions of a sort, neither are "natural". This goes beyond my anthology of plastics.
Black and red carrots, 13 March 2010
Black Carrot juice, 26th March 2010, Lahore
Carrots in the clothes basket, 13th March 2010
Mixed carrots and plastic
Black carrots and orange plastic, 13th March 2010
The shoot
set-up with Nikon D3
Dyed eggs for Naurose,
Appo Jaffar, at Khaplu Palace, Baltistan 23rd March 2010
Khaplu village from above, 23rd March 2010
Khaplu high plateau in search of lawn-grass, 23rd March 2010
Panorama with Huna, Khaplu 23rd March 2010
Black Peppercorn Haier top-loader, detergent free twin tub, 14th March 2010
R.A. Bazaar Bombings, Friday 12th March 2010
Body parts, mobile phone advert, R.A. bazaar Bombings, Friday 12th March 2010
Washing down R.A. Bazaar, bombings, 12th March 2010
R.A. Bazaar bombings, 12th March 2010
Just outside Skardu by road, 23rd March 2010
Cabbage White's eating all my Ruccola, 26th March 2010
I went back to "Bilal Gunj" Lahore's massive used car part market for a second sound sampling, a few days ago. This time with Huma's 4 channel Zoom recorder.
In over an hour of walking the lanes I got reasonably varied ambient sound from the breakers, welders, paint-sprayers and a great many gas and kerosene burners heating food and tea. On this trip I realized there was a tremendous culture of food going on here.
Fish, tea, sweet-potatoes, chena, monpelli, carrot juice, egg-fried rice, subzi and dal, roti's of every description and finally hot, boiled desi-unday. I'd almost given up on the eggs. I kept asking where the sellers were, because it was their presence selling these beautiful subtle-hued, small precious des-unday (local-eggs/free-range eggs) in the context of these ancient and smashed oily wrecks of cars and trucks that had given rise to the egg and engine photographs.
Suddenly they were there running through the lanes, two sellers I'd never seen before. They both carried padded bags to keep the boiled eggs warm, their cry was garam-desi-unday and I realized this would give a somewhat different spin on the photographs. They'd be read as engine heated eggs, not what I'd intended.
I'd intended the teeming living eggs as nature amongst the toxic waste of the man-made, the guts of the engines.
I produced a 12 minute mixed edit of the garam-unday criers and the ambient sounds on my stroll through the richly varied soundscape in the lanes of this market. Hazrat Data Ganj Bakhsh's shrine minarets can be heard throughout the work, a constant accompaniment at Bilal Gunj. This shrine to the patron saint of Lahore, lies right in front of the car market.
"966th URS Shareef is on 3 Feb 2010 Inshallah"
966 Urs Mubarak Of Hazrat Data Ganj Bakhsh Ali Hajveri Will Held On 19 Safar al Muzaffar And 4 February 2010 (Approx) At Data Darbar , Near Bhatti Gate, Lahore. Pakistan Days Remaining In URS Hazrat Data Ganj Bakhsh
His birthday is being celebrated today which a holiday in most of Punjab.
(....haven't been able to upload this clip as yet)
Working with Lawrence Gardens, Bagh-e-Jinnah.
Had an initial walk through the park on an exceptionally drab smoggy day. Met with head mali Alam and his staff and borrowed plans of the park and other parks of Lahore.
The People's Art and Historical Project. A collaboration with Adnan Madani, Karachi/London.
We are working on several new versions of the People's Art Historical Garden Centre Project, that was performed to good effect at the opening of Greynoise's recent showing on 25th October 2009, entitled "Patrons of Oh My God, I can afford Art".
Beginning work on my dissertation "The Post-Colonial Garden as a Palimpsest".
Busy reading. Recently finished K. Helphand's "Defiant Gardens", much else to write up here.
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