Floating Delights

Floating Delights

Sunday, April 4, 2010

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.