Mike Pearson and I have started a new collaboration around theatre/archaeology – the rearticulation of fragments of the past as real time event – [Link] to a prospectus. As part of this revival I am reviewing some of my photography projects from the last three decades, explaining and adding commentary. Many are at archaeographer.com. I…
haecceity
Hindås – haecceity
First signs of spring as the snow melts – near Hindås, Göteborg, Sweden – more experiments in landscape photography … [Link] [Link] Haecceity – qualities of “thisness” or “hereness” (my definition).
Rotterdam – Andor von Barsy
Came across the wonderful documentary photography of Andor von Barsy on a recent trip to Rotterdam. So reminiscent of my childhood in a shipbuilding port in the north east of England. My history and childhood seems to be black and white and written now in silver crystals.
Design, RES and RESPUBLICA
In Tokyo for EPIC – Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference. 6th edition. [Link] Some summary points from my keynote. How could I not respond to Kenya Hara’s wonderful opening keynote and his emphasis on the dialectic of making and its deep connection with human being? [Link] The range of research techniques and methods that I…
Kenya Hara: emptiness
In Tokyo for EPIC – Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference. 6th edition. [Link] Kenya Hara, Art Director of Muji, has opened the conference with a beautiful meditation on emptiness – “ku”. For me, Kenya was talking about human being and how it implicates the world of things. This Henckels knife fits the hand of the…
Shadforth, Durham
Staying with Christina (Unwin) and Richard (Hingley).
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