memoryscape 3

death of the physical world

Death of the Physical World

I've been messaging my project partner on and off for several days now, and we've come up with some good ideas. I'm particularly interested in the rise of digital media. As digital media becomes more popular, people tend to push away from physical media.

Kindles aim to replace books. Netflix and Hulu have destroyed businesses like Blockbuster. Music and movies can be purchased online, through itunes, as fewer people buy CDs and DVDs.

Many people, much like myself, have a certain appreciation for physical media. We like to hold the actual media in our hands, but that feeling is disappearing ever so slightly, year by year. I'm very intrigued in exploring the idea of physical media's looming death.

| Recent Photo: "Goodbye, Old Friend."

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This is a post from  my partner's blog. from now on we'll be using the foggy attic as a joint blog to post our progress and conversations

heres a link to his personal blog as well.

http://cpenso.blogspot.in/

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memory landscape 2

started on a second one today.still a work in progress. need to change a few things.

more progress on memory landscapes

did a few more rounds of exchange over this image with chris. i think it looks quite interesting. hoping to develop our work further with the next one.

i find it intriguing that after working on this image, chris' images too are strangely becoming part of my memories. as i look at the image, i can almost imagine chris' dog, lito, being there with me and ma parents. memory is so malleable and volatile.

albrecht durer- proverbs

very interesting from the nothern renaissance. beautifully detailed, i could look at this for hours! its amazing how multiple stories are weaved into one image, and how the eye moves from one to another, discovering new things as i go.

one more

progress 2

tried a few more things.not sure which one to go with. but i like the look of the crow

progress

we started work today on a peice revolving around memories around an ocean. the idea came from the fact that my partner comes from a place which is called "ocean state", in rhode island.
my memories and images of an ocean will be very different from his and will be interesting to see in our little composition. thinking we should play more with perspective and foreground background elements, maybe text and colour too.
still a work in progress.

richard hamilton

stumbled upon this inspiring work by richard hamilton.
content wise its gonna be very different from what chris and i are working on, but visually i find it giving me lots of ideas. the play with perspective, and with the sizes of the component images is very interesting. also, its interesting how the images are not perfectly sitting together, and they remind me of their earlier context, where they might have been taken from. thats the beauty im seeing in collages.

collaboration -Bangalore meets Providence

in the next phase, i will be collaborating with a friend of mine, Christiano Penso, who is studying at the URI in the US.
together we are aiming to have a dialogue revolving around the idea of memory and collaborate on a project together which will be exhibited in both geographical locations.
We have begun to converse over skype and facebook, and i will be posting our progress and our dialogues on the blog.
Excited to see what comes out of this!