FMP 1-2-1 no.3 and participants

HildeMaassen
Jul 25, 2020
3 min read

Updated: Aug 6, 2020

It is a year ago that Laura saw my work; it has gained direction and is stronger as a result; she told me. Yesterday I saw that my older series had a honourable mention at Tifa (Tokyo international Photography awards) at the end of last year; didn’t know, didn’t get a mail: https://www.tokyofotoawards.jp/winners/hm/2019/3769/

Got an article online at Dodho and Laura was surprised at the amount of people who saw it, over 1450 already https://www.dodho.com/layered-clouds-by-hilde-maassen/

I sent a pdf before the meeting with things I have done

I am very tired. For this first week of the holidays I will take some rest to clean headspace.

Laura told me that I have good experiments, divers and consistent. Interesting work. Good idea to have the paper negatives exhibited makes it tactile.

Laura told me to have a look at ways people exhibit to make it an experience for the audience.

The way this book, Afronants. by Christine de Middel, is photographed as if it is floating.

Searching for the word floating I came by the work of Katsumi Hayakawa. He created this sculpture using paper, wire, glitterand glue and is called Floating City. The way it is exhibited is fascinating. I can think of things floating using magnetism or air, when very thin. The shadow on the ground is part of the object.

The idea of floating is direct related to clouds and has a lot of possibilities.

In Berlin they had an exp and symposium on Floating Utopias in 2018. The first image I see, an floating artwork by Ahmet Öğüt reminds me of the surrealistic paintings by Renée Margitte.

Ahmet Öğüt: ‘Castle of Vooruit’, 2018,(Photo by Luca Girardini)

In an article I read that the first hot-air balloon was ascended in 1783. How much did change and what is possible nowadays with new technologies? Is it used in Art and architecture and how?

Artúr van Balen 2011-2012. Compost Sculpture

Rainforest 1968 by choreographer Merce Cunningham with kind of floating ballons; gives me ideas for new photo's.

Architect Graham Stevens made the installation Desert clouds. It is not just for the look of it but it is an ecological approach. He focused on capturing and transforming natural energy sources from the environment in his “atmospheric” architectures.

Graham Stevens. 1972-2004. Desert Clouds

This interactive projection on mist is invented in 2014 in Bristol; I like the blue Cloudy look.

TheFloating World? Ukiyo

A kind of woodprint from Japan from the middle of the 18th century.

One example I referred to before I think because of the graphics I made last module.

This image is made by Katsushika Hokusai.

Katsushika Hokusai. ca.1830. The great wave.

For this exposition Roni Horn converted a library made of ice and water, is the culmination of her relationship with the solitary landscape of Iceland.

For the negatives I a have this kind of small boxes I can see.

Mika Kamura-mather. 2017. The floating world.

What is nice about the exhibition by Tacide Dean is that the 50 works have different sizes.

Tacide Dean 2015 my English breath in foreign clouds

Melinda Gipsons studio was burned and she made a book. Her book is sold smelling after smoke. In a performance she heats them to get the smell.

Laura showed me a work of hers were she rephotographed a negative in pieces to enlarge them and place them together on a wall. The differences in the color added to the results she wanted.