I did a bit of work for myself yesterday (day 4) too, which I’ve just been doing a rough edit on.
I’m drawn to places where people pass through: streets, bridges, passageways and squares. I found a large spacious square in Beşiktaş, which has a bus station, taxi stands and a ferry port skirting it. I’ve been interested in the patterns of paving stones and am thinking of them in the sense of drawings and am also thinking about Richard Serra’s works where he took a list of verbs and created sculptures in response to them.
I’m developing a series of ‘drawings’ that are being made into animations, in response to verbs about movement. So the beginning of the week saw me use ‘Spread’, and Beşiktaş square suggested the term ‘criss-cross’. I’ve taken a load of photographs but also made some walks crossing the square, following the line of the paving stones, whlie counting the number of stones along that course.
Here’s a link to the rough edit of the audio: http://tradingstation.tumblr.com/post/20107929308/…
I’m planning on going back to the square today to record some more traversals in the same way – think it could be edited together nicely so that the layers all cross over each other. I’ve also got an idea to ‘paint’ the flagstones with water to trace the route that I take – would look like a drawing, be temporary, but I need to get a big paintbrush and some guts to go out and get on with it!.
