a-house-a-day: day 54.

Friday, October 23, 2015

day 54.

the house opposite friendship hotel, near Edna Mall.

- Today, i wrote 8 more emails titled; 'regarding working/collaborating with......'

- while i drew this house, a man came and sat next to me. He showed me some of his drawings. All, nude females, in pencil. (They were all google images, some of them were even watermarked).I complimented him on his skill.

1 comment:

Haider Ali JanOctober 23, 2015 at 2:02 PM
This is very methodical , almost a disciplinary excercise. Things I find interesting are
1: The dates: reminds me of archeological data collection but in that case I would like to see more data. Kinda like discovering a house one brick, a piece of wood at a time.
2. The placement of stamp dates along with the house kinda seems like the measuring/scale stick used in archeological findings.
3. I have always thought that these inverted V shaped roof houses are a colonial import.
4. In one case you are describing the house from the inside but you are outside. You are making assumptions. Kinda like annalysing or making assumptions about a past civilization based on ? Or is it more like fictional novel inwhich you are discovering new spaces.
I guess I'm just blabbering now :p
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about this blog

Each day, i will; make a house. For how long? Not sure!

questions for myself;

- How important is the craftsmanship/quality of the houses?

- How important is the photograph to me?

- Is the photograph the final work?

- If the photograph is the final work, why don't i make ephemeral houses?

- How important is the physicality of the object?

- (so far, the physical object is important, even the houses that I left behind, are kind of permanent (unless they are intentionally undone - also their photo is printed on a scale of 4" by 6", perhaps to become a postcard in future). So far, the photograph is not the final work but a document of the work).

- What is the relevance of the 'blog' as a medium?

(I only started to use it, to give myself a structure, which would help me be regular and consistent, but now I can't ignore it as a medium with its own meanings attached to it. So then, does the work need to exist outside of the blog?).

- How important is the quality of the photographs?

- Most of the houses so far are borrowed from found images without any reference?

(sometimes I draw houses from my surroundings and photograph the drawing in front of that house, or draw houses that i have lived in (from memory), or google images by typing 'house' or 'beautiful house')

- the form of the houses probably needs some thought put into it?

(but not every house everyday for 2 years can have a thought put into, it can/should be more mechanical, no?)

- Is 1 or 2 years or however long my stay in Addis is, a good enough structure for this project?

(not sure. Considering making it lifelong,).

- what does it do for the viewer? what do i want it to do, to the viewer? Does the work need a description? What aspects are tiring or boring or uninteresting? What is interesting?