Koekenaap workshop: part two

 

3 October, Monday

 yoga after sunrise

breakfast and painting

meeting a new friend

land art raking leaves

taking photographs

documenting

delicious lunch

talking, inspiring, absorbing

explorative guided tree walk

building a booklet

constructing

dinner

share, talk, discuss, read, enlighten

write, draw

smell the leaves and berries

sleep

 

Kuier om die vuur, snags na 'n dag se werk. Die life of the party: George en Adri - albei met pittigste sêgoed en grappe. 

Stappies in die omgewing, laataand kuiers om die vuur en kunsmaak-sessies met toewyde konsentrasie - en soms konsternasie - vleg inmekaar in, sodat minute ure raak en ure sommer vinnig-vinnig in dae verander. Die tyd vlieg verby.

Die natuurlewe, landskap en self murasies was 'n visuele fees, en net soos wat die heerlike kos elke dag ons gevoed het, het dit ons kunswerke inspireer en gelei.

We went to Doringbaai, and I could've sat on the beach for HOURS just listening to and looking at the sea - words can't even begin to describe what I felt, heard and saw!

From chaos beauty can grow, just as life grows from decay in nature. Too often we perceive things (experiences, objects, people, events, etc.) as 'bad' without realizing the value and potential within it to grow and transform into something better and exquisite (making you a stronger person; an ugly duckling turning into a swan; someone learning from and helping others because of their worst mistakes and 'bad' experiences). And from the chaos that most of the time made it hard to find things in the studio, we created artworks that inspire and celebrate life.

Developed

Silence is golden...

...because in my case it means that I'm busy! And happily so. Even though my heart is racing a bit quicker every time I think about all the things I am supposed to be doing and getting done!



But rather than reading about me sharing all my anxieties and never-ending to-do-list with you, please take a minute or two to look at some of my latest photographs from my Pentax SLR (FILM!) camera and still-relatively-new Holga camera from Exposure Gallery (also film, and unfortunately I managed to underexpose quite a couple of photos on the 2 latest film rolls... but every new film is a new learning and experiencing opportunity, so I'm not complaining!).

Looking around again

Debut run with my new Holga! Using Portra Natural Colour 160 Iso film, I had a go with my new Lomography camera, which I bought about two weeks ago at Exposure Gallery at the Old Biscuit Mill - thanks Fernando! A LOT of blurry images - motion blur, not the characteristic Lomo-blur (I got confused with the N (normal) and B (bulb) setting, resulting in toooo long exposures and too much movement on my already double-, triple- and quadruple exposures) - but these six shots are quite satisfactory - especially the bottom 3...


As usual, of course, taking photographs with film made me more aware again about what's around me and how a lot of the very 'ordinary' objects, scenes and landscapes around us could make the perfect, most interesting subjects for artworks...

Where we Lived

Work in progress....

I've written onto this old lomograph by scratching into the photographic paper's first layer. The image were created by exposing the film twice - once in a fish eye lens camera, and once in my Pentax K-1000.