This is it, Nikon D3, Raw conversions and downsized for web.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Friday, March 26, 2010
Febuary-March, Cantt. Lahore & Ganche, Baltistan
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| Carrots in the washing basket, 13 March 2010 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. |
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| Black and red carrots, 13 March 2010 |
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Black Carrot juice, 26th March 2010, Lahore     
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| Khaplu village from above, 23rd March 2010 |
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| Khaplu high plateau in search of lawn-grass, 23rd March 2010 |
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| Panorama with Huna, Khaplu 23rd March 2010 |
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| Black Peppercorn Haier top-loader, detergent free twin tub, 14th March 2010 |
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| R.A. Bazaar Bombings, Friday 12th March 2010 |
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| Body parts, mobile phone advert, R.A. bazaar Bombings, Friday 12th March 2010 |
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| Washing down R.A. Bazaar, bombings, 12th March 2010 |
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| R.A. Bazaar bombings, 12th March 2010 |
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| Just outside Skardu by road, 23rd March 2010 |
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| Cabbage White's eating all my Ruccola, 26th March 2010 |
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Sound Work, web-clip 6:31
From "Automaton Love" Loft gallery, Mumbai
February-March 2010
A down-sampled clip from a larger sound work of 12 mins.
Images added from Bilal Gunj market, Lahore
-editioned sound work 1/3
built up from sampling at Bilal Gunj over the past three months.
(Desi Garam Unday = Local Hot Eggs)
Something for the winter in Lahore.
Something for the winter in Lahore.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
"Desi Unday" Bilal Gunj
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.
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)
Friday, January 15, 2010
Art for "The Post-Colonial Garden as a Palimpsest"
Let me begin by saying that I love hand-knotted rugs, of all sorts and I do own a few.
These are not mine, well maybe a few are by now and some are with my friends. It was a day of viewing rugs, mostly Chobi's (Zeigglers) here.
These are not mine, well maybe a few are by now and some are with my friends. It was a day of viewing rugs, mostly Chobi's (Zeigglers) here.
We're moving house much is being discarded, here's an old rug I almost threw away today.
...and part of another
...and part of another
Some details of the finer piece.
These are around 10 x 12 ft, very old, badly damaged hand-knotted rugs that I acquired in Karachi almost ten years ago. I had intended them to be used in work for many years after I gave up on them, as floor coverings.
The blue Persian is a much finer piece but totally threadbare, worn right down to the structural weft and weave of its base, from a distance it's almost monochrome. They are both also full of dust despite several previous washings. The motifs are of course all plant and garden based. These rugs would seem a viable visual metaphor a cultural reading of "the garden". Here it is played out as as paradise itself. A contained garden of fountains, bird song, fruit bearing trees within in an ordered orchard. An oasis of sorts.
I decided to cut out the still intact central portion today, and have kept the borders to experiment on as well. I'm intending to somehow work into and onto these rugs. At present it seems to me that the only authentic way to do that is to actually stitch another layer right into their very fabric, perhaps this should read from both sides as in fact this threadbare one does. Now there is no hierarchy of front or back, its much the same.
I will have to have to stitch the edges to prevent this one disintegrating. It felt sacrilegious to be cutting into this once magnificent rug but if I can use it in my work it will have another lease of life.
I'm thinking of stitching the ground plan for "Lawrence Gardens" a Lahori British Raj park, now Bagh-e-Jinnah or perhaps even the plan of parts of the "Palace of Versailles", gardens, the parterre's in particular. Right now I'm thinking of a gold thread for visibility but I'll have to try things out.
They'll need to be stabilized, stretched on frames, washed and dried, none as simple as it sounds.. Then I'll have to find out what the issues of working in to the surface of these rugs is.
I think I'll begin with some photoshoped treatments as mock-ups.
The rug represents a pre-colonized traditional cultural thread (forgive the pun) or does it? Their history in this region is not so pure or simple.
William Glover's new book "Making Lahore Modern" Constructing and imagining a colonial City, just arrived. Its only been a week or so since I ordered though Amazon's express delivery cost me as much as the book itself!
"Flying Carpet"
A work by Berlin based Alex Fleming shown at Art Dubai a few years ago. I instantly recognized it as a work I should have, could have made! (don't you hate it when that happens?) We became friends and I sent him an Afghani War rug subsequently.
They'll need to be stabilized, stretched on frames, washed and dried, none as simple as it sounds.. Then I'll have to find out what the issues of working in to the surface of these rugs is.
I think I'll begin with some photoshoped treatments as mock-ups.
The rug represents a pre-colonized traditional cultural thread (forgive the pun) or does it? Their history in this region is not so pure or simple.
William Glover's new book "Making Lahore Modern" Constructing and imagining a colonial City, just arrived. Its only been a week or so since I ordered though Amazon's express delivery cost me as much as the book itself!
"Flying Carpet"Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Mochi Gate, Old City, Lahore 29th November 2009
Over Bakra Eid in Lahore, November 2009, near Mochi Gate, Walled City.
Skinning a sheep, near Mochi Gate
(also see movie clip)
Sheep
Skinning a sheep, near Mochi Gate(also see movie clip)
Sheep
Wiring and speakers
BA English
Nan Katai shop
Nan Katai's
Carolyn Guertin
Bazaar life
Bazaar
Cleaning Goats Heads
Goats Heads
Processing goat parts
also see the movie clip
Dry Fruit Stall
Carolyn Guertin
Brain Computers
Brain Computers
Beautiful animals for Eid
Remains
Skins on a bike
Skins at the roadside
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