“Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions or will.” Patrick Süskind, Le Parfum The Scent of Place – How do we perceive and experience a place? By trying to slowly position myself here in British Colombia, I would like to capture the scents of this place. How do we recollect memories …
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“Grief is love where the object of love is cut of” Unknown When do experiences become memories? When do habits become rituals? When does time become sequenced in generations? Once the emotional factor inhabits those, our perception shifts. But how can emotions be embodied in these systems? Telling a story doesn’t necessarily need to happen …
action eleven
“Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe For this last action I teamed up with Christa, and we decided that with this action we wanted to create a framework for collaborative work in which we could unfold our …
action ten
Embedding Memories – Keeping Stories Or is it embedding stories and keeping memories? I don’t know. All I know is that for this action, I wanted to look into something I picked on in action eight – remembrance. How do we remember stories? How do we evoke memories? How do we forget them? Is it …
action nine
Touch of Remembrance In my previous action I learned about the symbolic meaning of rosemary and felt that this needed to be embodied in some sort of wearable garment. I placed the piece of cloth around my wrist and it somehow shifted its association. The scales became dragon skin, the reflections became playful. I am …
action eight
“There is rosemary, that’s for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember.” William Shakespeare; Ophelia in Hamlet I didn’t have a clue what rosemary symbolized when I strayed through the garden, looking for herbs and scents that I like – to which I have a connection and whose scent would reveal good memories to me. Rosmarinus officinalis …
action seven
Chances and Boundaries Giving sage a second chance. This action happened very spontaneously. When thinking of the action’s self-determination I started playing around with the sage paper that was lying on my desk. I noticed that somehow the smell had disappeared to a certain point – it somehow smelled …good! So I decided I’ll give …
action six
Hidden Potentials. I will investigate forgotten and new knowledge through the actions of further material explorations. There is a lot of knowledge shared, yet a lot of knowledge forgotten. A lot of knowledge has been proven, a lot of knowledge has been held back. How can the forgotten, the hidden, the restrained knowledge become accessible to society again? In my …
action five
Forgotten knowledge & proven wisdom Transcending the Limits of the Real Knowledge is a familiarity, awareness, or understanding of someone or something, such as facts (propositional knowledge), skills (procedural knowledge), or objects (acquaintance knowledge). By most accounts, knowledge can be acquired in many different ways and from many sources, including but not limited to perception, …
action four
Nature’s offerings. Step out and look wider – Generation “Ecologically Literate” was the word I’ve chosen for my Action 3, in which the experience of nature was put into focus. How could I translate nature to a material I had at home? How could the picture of wilderness become more clear in my imagination by …