Art

Recently I have been re-reading or starting to read books I've read some time ago or have been intending to read for a while. It really gave a renewed perspective on my art-practice, a new focus, which I feel I had lost for a while. My work focuses on the ephemeral nature of the landscape and which role people play in this constantly changing landscape. I'm interested in how to represent this drifting landscape, how to grasp the ever-changing nature of environment, which we help to create. I want to understand and use it as a tool for my designs.Currently I am reading Rhythmanalysis: Space, time and Everyday Life, by Henri Lefebvre. He see our world as a collection of rhythms, each element has its own rhythms, which is constituted out of millions of rhythms themselve. The tree, which can be seen as a static element, suddenly becomes a living thing in motion. It moves but much slowerr than us. I just love these ideas. It makes you look at the world with completely new eyes.
I am starting to return to my thinking before I left Edinburgh, I don't know whether this is a good or a bad thing, but it definately gives me a renewed energy.

Markus Miessen Lecture

This evening I went to a Markus Miessen lecture at Stroom in The Hague. It was really interesting. Markus Miessen is the writer of did someone say participate and the violence of participation. During his lecture which was mostly based on the ideas of the last mentioned book, he showed us projects which he considered as failures. Believe me they weren't failures, each one of them was very inquisitive and very to the heart of things. It was very refreshing to see someone so succesful being really humble and constantly striving to learn and do better. An inspiration to us all I would say. He had such a good understanding of our world and how it works on societal and political level and how this relates to creation of space, but still had the naivity to believe in people. I think that this positive view towards humanity makes him create his projects. He really wants to make a difference, but he also has the patience to achieve it. All in all a very inspiring person!