Wednesday, January 6, 2010

1.6.10 – Back to Reality


There's something very sad about an empty cupcake wrapper. It's as though the party is over, back to reality.

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3 comments:

  1. FrescaJanuary 11, 2010 at 9:45 PM

    I can't get over how much I am enthralled by your movies, Dania.

    This evening I went for a walk around the lake (after a week of near or below zero weather here in MN, it's gotten into the balmy teens!) and I was actually seeing things differently because of them.
    Even though the movies like this cupcake wrapper one don't move, they are entirely different from a photograph because they aren't frozen, but happen in real time.

    As I was walking, it came to me that they offer freedom from narrative, a release from the way I habitually look for or impose a storyline or meaning onto life, and the way I am always putting words onto things--I'm quite wordy, as you can see. : ) Which is a good thing, in many ways, but your little movies are a liberation from the tyranny of words.

    I hope this doesn't seem insanely overblown to you, but honestly, I've never seen anything like these daily vids. Even if I never make any myself (though I'd like to), now I am walking around like a movie camera looking at things almost as if from *outside* of myself. Very amazing.
    Thank you!

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  2. DaniaJanuary 11, 2010 at 10:16 PM

    Fresca,

    Thank you so much for your comments. I appreciate it more than I can say. Sometimes you do these creative pursuits and never really know whether people get it or like it, so it's really nice to get some feedback, especially when it's positive.

    I can be wordy at times too, and found it impossible to just upload the videos without some kind of commentary. I've also found that making the movies have made me start seeing the beauty and interestingness of things around me again. The clutter in my house that I film or photograph tends to take on a new life and look so different to me afterward.

    Thanks for watching.

    Best regards,

    Dania

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  3. FrescaJanuary 12, 2010 at 10:11 AM

    Oh, good, I didn't sound like an insane person (my neurotic fear sometimes in blog commenting...). Whew.

    Just to add, I *love* that you always have some words in print around the wordless films.
    For a word-person/people-person like me, if the vids existed entirely on their own with no idea of who was behind them (say, on their own on a blank wall in an art museum, which they could do), they would be TOO bare.

    I wonder if one reason so many people stall once they're out of school and stop creating movies, poems, etc. is that we face emptiness--the roar of silence--instead of feedback from built-in audience.
    I find that both freeing (no one cares! ) and frightening (no one cares...).

    Making art in such a void is a genuinely brave thing to do.
    That all sounds grand. I would also say, it's a lot of fun!(Cupcakes!)

    So, on we go...

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