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ALMBWABPBIDCFERTIE_05
Mid-afternoon start again. Contemplating walking over in the direction of Broker’s Nose. It’s a long trip that involves heading most of the way up Mt Keira, then north to the freeway and across into a marshy expanse of bush that … Continue reading
ALMBWABPBIDCFERTIE_06
I have decided to collect seven squares altogether and link them together with hinges. They will be arranged concertina fashion so that both the outer and the inner skins are visible. Seven squares demands seven walks.
ALMBWABPBIDCFERTIE_07
I had thought of using the cut out metal squares as pages in a book. They would be drilled out with small holes in a grid-based fashion to represent a vision of multiple suns. The first square would contain one … Continue reading
ALMBWABPBIDCFERTIE_08
I realise that I said nothing substantive about the walk up Mt Keira in ALMBWABPBIDCFERTIE_05. I said nothing about the initial walk up my driveway, which later I would discover was misrecognised by our next door neighbour as the gait … Continue reading
Bouldering_Diary_04
Been a few days and I haven’t felt like writing. Rapidly ascending that small steep boulder problem has left me uncertain what to do next. I can’t even bother to watch Biggest Loser. In fact, I have already missed the … Continue reading
ALMBWABPBIDCFERTIE_09
Made an early start today. Decided to do the long walk, the walk over in the direction of Broker’s Nose. Hoping to find that 4wd vehicle abandoned, bogged, whatever in the marshy creek. So up Mt Keira, then out north … Continue reading
ALMBWABPBIDCFERTIE_10
The conceptual scheme: To illicitly cut out portions of illicitly dumped vehicles. To render bushwalking in illicit terms. To render illicit activities in terms of bushwalking and art, thus to make them, in some sense, licit. To confuse the licit … Continue reading
ALMBWABPBIDCFERTIE_11
Didn’t really feel like cutting up cars Saturday afternoon. Very hot day and I was already bedraggled from mowing two lawns and pruning some trees, but put a new blade on the grinder, charged the battery and headed off. Inspiration … Continue reading
ALMBWABPBIDCFERTIE_12
Left late in the afternoon. Low cloud settling over Mt Keira. Up in the direction of the Jumpers. The tree that had once been attached to the broken branch that had held up the daft mountain bike jump had itself … Continue reading
ALMBWABPBIDCFERTIE_13
And now I am feeling sad that I have only two more walks left. Before I was focused on getting the seven walks completed as quickly as possible, but now would like to slow things down.
ALMBWABPBIDCFERTIE_14
Note to self: read up again on Land Art. Hunch: the Land Art tradition intervenes in the natural landscape to produce monumental statements. I intervene within an impure environment to produce small, inconsequential statements, phrased as simple, inexplicable absences. Observation: … Continue reading
ALMBWABPBIDCFERTIE_15
A work, what work? It seems to me that the work is constituted precisely in terms of a complex of ambivalent elements. Walking that is not simply walking. Cutting that is not simply cutting. Writing that does not simply represent … Continue reading
ALMBWABPBIDCFERTIE_16
Ok, all nostalgia gone. Must get this project done while the weather holds. Indian summer can’t last. So though I hadn’t slept the night before, and the night before that as well – bloody moon – knew that I had … Continue reading
ALMBWABPBIDCFERTIE_17
To be a parasite upon an unhealthy host. To vandalise vandalism. To intervene by making an inconsequential mark. No point in cutting a whole car in half. I am not, like Gordon Matta-Clark, responding to systems generally. I am not … Continue reading
ALMBWABPBIDCFERTIE_18
So I had a whole day in front of me – all of Good Friday – to collect the final piece. That would have concluded things nicely. I am going away for a week tomorrow. But I woke up feeling … Continue reading
ALMBWABPBIDCFERTIE_19
No intention any longer to connect the pieces together with hinges. Instead I will simply hang them up from the ceiling in a line at roughly upper body or shoulder height. I am envisaging that they will be suspended by … Continue reading
ALMBWABPBIDCFERTIE_20
I can imagine other, possibly smarter and wittier, works. I could, for instance, fashion replica national park wildlife information signs that contain information about the nature of illegal dumping activities. These could be placed prominently next to various dumping sites. … Continue reading
Whakatane notes
[Written swiftly on a sleepless night in the small NZ coastal town of Whakatane, prior to leaving at 3:30am to drive back to Auckland. It belongs in ALMBWABPBIDCFERTIE only in as much as it provides a general context for my … Continue reading
ALMBWABPBIDCFERTIE_21
Back from my trip away and there was the sense of the changing of seasons – Summer passing into Autumn. I had one last walk to make. Arrived home on the train late on Friday evening with a lingering flu. … Continue reading
ALMBWABPBIDCFERTIE_22
I realise that the name should change. It should no longer be “A Line Made By Walking and Assembling Bits and Pieces of the Bodywork of Illegally Dumped Cars Found at the Edge of Roads and Tracks in the Illawarra … Continue reading
Rethinking Multiplexing
Last year I wrote about a ‘multiplexed’ notion of art, arguing that instead of dissolving the boundaries between art and everyday life, significant forms of contemporary practice run as currents through all manner of other, extra-artistic activities. I suggested that … Continue reading
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ALMBWABPBIDCFERTIE_23
I could write about the plans for the installation and its practical development, but I have no wish for this to become a journal. These assembled posts do not simply provide a background to the project. They are intimately tied … Continue reading
ALMBWABPBIDCFERTIE_24
All of my walks have been made alone. A week or so ago, however, on the afternoon of the 11th of April, I organised a group walk around the large Mount Nebo, Mount Keira circuit. Visiting artists, Simon Pope and … Continue reading
ALMBWABPBIDCFERTIE_25
I must show this one image, if only to express a doubt. The image is a composite of all seven of the cutting actions. The seven sets of four images are each two feet wide and four feet high. They … Continue reading
ALMBWABPBIDCFERTIE_26
As much as I do my best to adhere to the various rules that I have established for myself in this project, there are always elements of failure. Sometimes it is because the specific rule only occurs to me in … Continue reading