I have been so crazy busy!
I will be giving my first lecture tomorrow...yikes!!! Even though i know there will be like 5 people there i am still very nervous. Very extremely nervous. The lecture is for a scholarship I was awarded in 2007 to go to Lamu to research swahili architecture. Yeah long time ago for me to be talking about it now!!! but I am kinda grateful to have the opportunity to learn how to talk about research.
Great news too, I got the chance to have my photographs shown in the student gallery in Bentonville Ar. The concept for the collection of pictures (for the gallery) is surfaces.
While taking photographs for my thesis research in the slums I noticed beautiful details on the buildings, details that tended to go unnoticed when viewed within the chaos of everything else So i thought isolating that beauty might be a plan.
I wanted to show the beauty of the materials giving a glimpse into aspects of the slum that should be celebrated. For each photograph I zoomed in into sections of the wall surface to show texture, shadow, colour, or overlapping materials. The colours of the buildings were so unreal- the paint would mix with rust and dirt to create the most gorgeous hues. Some of the zoomed in pictures look like paintings...that I had not expected but was not surprised at all.
Will try and take pics at the opening this Friday.
Here is a teaser...
*The bottom image is how the pic would be viewed at the gallery- focused in on a particular portion of the wall.
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