random bird notes

Notes for 'THE BIRD WHO CAME TO'. 6.5 x 9.75 inches

girlfriend in a coma / epilogue

Originally, these were just fragments of my 'found material' archive (8mm film, 1961) but the ambiguity of the (unfinished?) sentence ... the double meanings ... the open-endedness. Consciousness, death, sexuality ... I felt it worked as a piece in and of itself.

cutting room floor

A test print discarded in 2007. Found amongst debris last week. Off to Slovakia for a second chance.

Dear John Letter

Dear John Letter (aka The Composition and Resolution of Forces)
22.5 x 26.5 cms.

HAFNY

In good company in this quirky math-centric collection curated by HAFNY. Thanks to Jon Feinstein and Roula Seikaly.

‘I'm taken by Robin Cracknell’s alpha-numeric intervention that attempts to quantify a moment of adolescent reverie. Ali Kate Cherkis' composition of three identically dressed Hasidic Jewish girls also thrills me for capturing one of those fleeting moments when discrete elements magically align. And then there’s Paul Berger’s iconic chalkboard scribbles which, made in the analog 1970s, are an eerie premonition to today’s digital data quantifying world’.

3 Years of Subtitle Poetry

This project is now over. From January 2016 to December 2018, breaking down dialogue from films and manually typing out those fragments and collaging them together has been part of my daily routine. After 400 films, the project has reached its natural conclusion. I ended with the right movie.

A Glass Partition

image: 'La Belle et La Bete' (Cocteau)
text fragments: 'Last Year at Marienbad' (Resnais)
combined algorithmically. print size approx 28 x 35 cms

Small Fires

image: 'Sleepless Night' (Jang Kun-jai)
text fragments: 'A Man and a Woman' (Claude Lelouch)
combined algorithmically. print size approx 25 x 20 cms

God

image: 'Tengoku to Jigoku' (Kurosawa)
text fragments: 'Diary of a Country Priest' (Bresson)
combined algorithmically. print size approx 25 x 20 cms

Tissues

image: 'Alps' (Yorgos Lanthimos)
text fragments: 'Nostalghia' (A. Tarkovsky)
combined algorithmically. print size approx 30 x 40 cms