[Adjective] magazine

Another happy accident. While I was doing the photos with moon as the model for the victim an tyrant investigations, she asked me to take a few more for a personal project she has going on for a little while, [Adjective] magazine which I cant wait to see the first issue to get printed... so while this happens I accidentally appear in the magazine's blog, which is always exciting.

I'll never leave you alone
Breaking is part of the bone
My heart will beat against yours
Making sure we never turn into stone

Nothing about this dead could be measured by a common standard, and the contradictory impulses overtaking me in this circumstance neutralized one another, leaving me blind and, as it were, very remote from anything I touched, in a world where gestures have no carrying power, like voices in a space that is absolutely soundless.

the desired places

A few buildings away from mine there is this little place. I don't pass by it very often, cos is in the opposite direction to the tube which seams to be the only place I go to near my flat. It is small and just very simple, I wish I could use it, I have forgotten what for, all in uni seams to be about  sticking things in my sketchbook that demonstrate than when i  graduate I will know what to do in places like this. And for every page I stick on I forget one little thing I wanted to do in the first place.

the second fatality (I need to find new things to say)

'Horror is a shock, a time of utter blindness. Horror lacks every hint of beauty. All we can see is the piercing light of an unknown event awaiting us.'


taken from the notes on 'the unbearable lightness of being from Milan Kundera' at moon's blog... 

the forbidden places

....call me vertigo

remember that you must die

memento mori

pictures and concept by Ignacio Diaz Romero. 

maggots feed with dead love
I ate whatever was left

.... traces... Welcome Intruders

.. a little advance of the pics from the 'WELCOME INTRUDERS' installation

... just cos i could not resist it... still gotta go through many many .. 

and it might take a little while... but will get here... 

 hope you enjoy it... I did, very much

in this post, the work of Alia Ahmad, Jaqueline Ford, Mara Bueno, Moonkeum Kim and Sarah Culross

Chromakey exercise

Last week, while the Well Gallery exhibition was being put up some of us had a workshop on Chromakey.. playing with green screens is fun... it makes me wanna come up with some silly project just to play with it... :)

'WELCOME INTRUDERS' EXHIBITION

In a project that questions the notion of identity and the public and private space, the personal and the impersonal, three Illustrators moved in my bedroom and surrounded by many of my personal things they were asked to respond to a space charged with its own history and make it their home. 

Leaving trace of their presence and having documented their findings, they would vacate the space after four days for the next intruder to come and build the next layer of their own territorial claim. 

This exhibition is to celebrate their findings and their contributions. And you will be able to see the various stages of this installation through their eyes as well as mine. 

During the exhibition a fourth  intruder will be Video Performing adding the final layer.  

Please note space will be restricted, so to avoid disappointment it is advisable that you confirm your attendance by emailing to marabueno@yahoo.com.mx with Welcome Intruders as the subject.

I will be very happy to see you there.
Thank You. 

If you want to read the brief they responded to, click here. 

'ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL' work in progress Exhibition

So I got to show the first stage of the WELCOME INTRUDERS project which final installation will be shown on the 29th of January. So far so good... 

Thanks to all those who came, it was a really fun night. 

work by bansy   and was thoughtful enough to make close ups of peoples work..  

 Annu Kilpelainen, picture by bansy

Adam Ggong, picture by bansy

Rach Taylor, picture by bansy

Guy Stanton, picture by bansy

Aaddaamm Ggoonngg, picture by bansy

Work in Progress Exhibition

'ALL'S  WELL THAT ENDS WELL'

The Well Gallery 

at the London College of Communication 

in Elephant & Castle, SE1 6SB

Friday 15th January 2010

16:00 - 22:00

2nd and 3rd Year Illustration are holding an exhibition of all our work in progress this Friday the 15th just for the hell of it (because we LOVE doing extra work) so pop on down and have a look!

I will be exhibiting the first set of documentation of the ongoing project 'WELCOME INTRUDERS' .

and yes... there will be beer!

....so see you there at 4pm  :)

Image by Amy Friend, who's work  will also be exhibited 
 

pointing to my home away from home..

.the rest is in the centre.

... in the time of beauty

...we dream of the summer when the freeze is gone.

CALL FOR ENTRIES. Territorial Claims.

WELCOME INTRUDERS

This is an open invitation to take part in a project that questions the notion of identity and the public and private space, the personal and the impersonal. What makes a place your home?

Every time we move house we go through a process of choosing what to bring with us and what is left behind, in this process, not only 'what we need' is taken with, there is also the what we want, what we treasure and what makes us feel at home. This objects can follow us for several years, to many places, some people even have objects that bring to hotel rooms when they are abroad, something that makes them feel like they bring a bit of that idea of home with them.

But there is more to a 'home' than just objects, there is also rituals, the rearranging of the layout of the space for example by moving the furniture around, is a good way to make us feel we have some kind of control over the place, changing the walls colour, or in cases like in london where doing this might result in loosing your rents deposit hanging a picture often does the trick. There are many very personal rituals we follow to make a place a little more our own.

This project wants to investigate the need to belong to a place and the ways we claim this territories.



For this over the period of 4 weeks, I will invite 4 different people to move in my bedroom and make it their own. Each of them will have 4 days, during this 4 days they will be surrounded by many of my personal things, they will be invited to modify the arrangement of the furniture and will have to work around what is hung on the walls.

You will be able to add and contribute to the layout of the walls by changing the arrangement what is already hanged. The idea is to respond to a place which is got it's own history. You will be expected to live part of 'you' in the bedroom, traces of your presence. This traces will be regularly documented.

Each of the contributors will be given 2 disponsable cameras to record their findings and contributions through their own eyes and will be giving them back at the end of their residence.

This findings and contributions will later be selected and exhibited in the space and posted in this site with their name as contributors and a link to their website or blog (if relevant).

The residences will be taking place over January 2010 so if yo would like to participate and you would like more information please send me an email with a brief description of yourself and an approximate of the dates that you would be able to take part of the project.



To see more on 'territorial claims' click here.

accidents ... (mara bueno in Sang Bleu)

Last Sunday I was taken some pics by Adrian Wilson who is one of the editors of Sang Bleu Magazine; the shoot was for the Number 5 which will be out on February 2010 and is gonna have an article about Tomas, so you will be able to see my arms in some detail. Tomas is a friend who's work I absolutely love and is of great inspiration so I could not have say no. The session was fun but was hard not to be horribly shy..

anyway, almost accidentally my own work was also photographed, this left leg that was my practising stress free meat... and Adrian made a beautiful picture of it and posted it in the Sang Bleu's Blog, so I feel very privileged...