Reporting from Munka Ljungby pt 3.

During the past six weeks my class has been working around the theme of "förlust", loss.
I've mostly been working with loss integrated in the creative process, or a means of creation if you will.

My first idea was to make drawings, counting the lines used and then gradually diminishing the number. It sounds kind of neurotic and boring I bet, but it was actually quite alot of fun. Here are two such studies out of three I've done.

My second idea was to apply a similar method to language. In my case this ment translating text seven times using Babelfish. The text I chose to insert was 14 of the United Nations' Human Rights Articles:

This text was then used as an audio, read out loud by a voice-synthesizer, for an animation my classmate Jenny did. We decided to present our work together, as an installation of sorts. We had also built a recordplayer out of a broken bicycle together, loosley connecting it to the theme of loss. Jenny also made a clock out of an actual record player and a clock out of booklets. We used my drawings as a wallpaper and presented the animation on a TV.

It's been a lot of fun piecing this together, aswell as just cooperating based on similar ideas instead of assignment by a teacher. The first time we actually played music on the bicycle was fantastic, we were fascinated like small children. All the machinery and machine-like drawing has me fiending for painting and generally doing things a bit more freely though. Also, this is pretty far from what I saw myself doing when I started at this school. To some extent I think it's because I all of a sudden have the time and resources to actually do all the weird ideas I get, which is great.

/Theo