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Self-Directed Project Research #1

Third Idea:

I have constantly been taking pictures of the sun at the beach. In my next project, I will consider using this site and I will use landscape images to narrate a past experience. I would like to either add a sculpture to this site, constructed previously at the studio or at the beach using natural materials that can stay permanently at the beach and do not harm the environment.

G.B

2nd Idea Self-Directed Project Research #1

In this landscape which is a natural environment with is own ecosystem at the sea shore were plants are tolerant to high concentration of salt, it is the same environment that I found in a marshland area next to the ocean. In this environment I used to pas many hours observing nature, riding horses and painting outdoors. I would like to explore the possibilities of this place in my second project, maybe using this scenario to create an history from my past.

1st Idea Self-Directed Project: Research 1

I want to continue a project using the Eruv and to integrate it with the memory of a horse i used to ride at the beach. The beach is kind of sacred place for me, where besides relaxing, it makes me recall happy and sad memories which identify me and where I always go back to create my art.

3rd Idea for Self-Directed Project: Research #2

My third Idea is to look inform myself about the components of the beach sand, to link this to elements of organic remains like bones. My intention is to understand how by burying bone on the sand how the elements of the sand affect the bones and maybe preserve or how this fossilizes with time. This idea is based on a personal experience when burying the bones of an animal for its preservation. I would like to understand how natural elements integrate in nature.

2nd Idea for Self-Directed Project

Research #2

My Second idea is to use trash found at the beach to create an sculpture, in this case an animal, maybe a horse, or a sea creature, to motivate observers to question ocean contamination and the impact of trash on ocean creatures and natural space.

self Directed-Practice #2: Research

Statement of Intent:

My first idea is based on a past memory of a horse living in a wet land next to the beach. The place I live now is also next to the beach, and this beach has a type of plants similar to the wetland from my memories. My Idea is to create an horse sculpture with elements found at the Sea shores I live now. I would like to use plants or sand to make this sculpture.

Geraldine Bello

2nd Project

Title: “Horse Remains Sand Sculpture”

Elements used: sand, water and dried palm trunk shell. Dimensions : 1 m x 58 cm.

Statement of Intent: To build my Horse Remains Sand sculpture, ( Horse Skull and bones) made of beach sand and pieces of palm trunk shell; I had to build a first piece to test the sand, since the sand at the beach, was too grainy instead of muddy, which is the best because muddy fine sand can stay and allows to model it . I worked intuitively without putting to much attention to any form or detail, and while working on it, I realized, that shape of the skull could also be not from a horse, but from a Manatee. Once I learned that just the skull of a Manatee weights 1,000 lbs mainly due to a lot of Calcium content, this discovery for me was very impressive, this fact, the water next to me, and the grey color of the sand, maybe gave my horse skull an amorphic shape of a manatee-horse.

During my work at the beach, my favorite place on earth, I felt very comfortable, happy and full of wishes to keep working in projects to help others appreciate natural environments and its creatures.

Project #5:Index

1. Self-Directed Practice #1: Research

1st Idea : https://gbell007.tumblr.com/post/636811922879217664/1st-idea-self-directed-project-research-1-i-want

2nd Idea : https://gbell007.tumblr.com/post/636812427250548736/2nd-idea-self-directed-project-research-1-in-this

Third Idea : https://gbell007.tumblr.com/post/636894869501231104/self-directed-project-research-1-third-idea-i

2. Self-Directed Practice #1: Final

A) Picture of process

3.Self-Directed Practice #2: Research

1st Idea https://gbell007.tumblr.com/post/636798523276476416/self-directed-practice-2-research-statement-of

2nd Idea https://gbell007.tumblr.com/post/636809399681286144/2nd-idea-for-self-directed-project-research-2-my

3rd Idea

https://gbell007.tumblr.com/post/636809955311222784/3rd-idea-for-self-directed-project-research-2-my

4. Self-Directed Practice #2: Final

5. Final PDF Portfolio

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EQ1U5Plao2C2f7BAvO2gEcryfGVGNi4u/view?usp=drivesdk

self Directed Practice #1: Research

Project 1 Final.

Title: Eruv and Horse at the Beach Movie

IMovie 8m 50 sec.

You Tube Address: https://youtu.be/OV73IOt-o4Q Statement: This is a silent movie, not descriptive of any kind, but is based on a past memory of a horse living and running free at the beach shores. I leave the spectator to create their own impressions and let their imagination free to create their own history about it. I still want to leave my own personal history, about how this movie was done.

My first intention was to intervene the Eruv close to my house. I did observed this Eruv for several years, and I decided this time to intervene it to link it to a memory of the past: A beloved horse that got injured and soon after butchered and its remains left at the Marshland next to a Sea shore like this one the video. Walking next to this Eruv, I kept staring to the Seagrape tree trunks cut to the ground, this pieces of trunks dried out by the sun and whitened by the salty breeze brought me memories of the horse bones remains I found once in a similar marshland landscape. In a location like this but away from the city is where I used to ride the horse right at the beach shores for hours. The horse once got injured on its leg, and soon felt pray of butchers who took its meat to sell it, and only its bones were left on the salty beach shores.

The process of creating this movie was spontaneous never planned, in fact I never thought about creating a movie but after finding myself videoing and finding myself very comfortable with the scenes presented. Hile I was intervening the eruv, a couple couple also started to videoing the horse flipping freely around the eruv line. The video needs more editing for my full satisfaction, but I captured all I needed to tell.

Project #4: Index

1. Corners: QCQ #1

2. Corners: Research

3. Corners: Final

4. The Dialects of Outside and Inside: QCQ

5. Door - The Dialects of Outside and Inside: Research

1 Research

6. Door - The Dialects of Outside and Inside: Final - Four Parts-

A. Intro Link: https://gbell007.tumblr.com/post/635614274734211073/project-threshold-title-my-eruv-is-your-eruv

B. 1st Video. Link: https://gbell007.tumblr.com/post/635614212499111936 C. 2nd Video. Unplanned Performance Link: https://gbell007.tumblr.com/post/635614050780381184/project-threshold-title-my-eruv-is-your-eruv D. Interaction with Eruv : link: https://gbell007.tumblr.com/post/635613643907727360/project-treshold-title-my-eruv-is-your-eruv

6. Assignment: Dialectics of the Space Outside and Inside. Final.

Project: Threshold

Title: My Eruv is your Eruv

Materials: trash found at the beach, fishing line, wood stands.

Location:: Miami Beach. Artist: Geraldine Bello 2020 Statement:

For my Threshold Project, I used the Eruv that runs along Miami Beach shores. I used the symbolic meaning of the Eruv: An imaginary wall that transforms a public space into a private space. I created my own Eruv from a fishing line in which I hanged trash collected from the beach shores, and I placed this Eruv parallel to the Eruv at the beach. My first motivation was to create an installation that can raise awareness of the pollution of the ocean and the beach shores, but when doing a previous intervention with another Eruv, I realized, that I needed more information from the public , so I did took two videos and a series of pictures from which I started raising up more questions. But I decide to leave this questions raised by the viewers . The point of view from were I take this shots are from the Inside, the Private space, which is for me the city, and the ocean side is the public space, the place I chose to hang the objects is the threshold, and is in here that The question of we’re doing these objects belong to? In the private or the public space. I believe people understand that leaving the objects at the beach is ok, because the public space is public. The pictures in which the child interacts with the Eruv, is a document to explore, from different angles, the child going under the Eruv, crossing from the public to the private space created, made me decide the title for this project.

Project Threshold

Title: My Eruv is your Eruv

Project Treshold

title: My Eruv is your Eruv

Installation with trash objects found at the beach, fishing line, wooden stands.

Unsolicited performance by child encountering the installation. Artist: Geraldine Bello

Project Ideas: B. A Door, A Doorway, A Threshold

2. Picture from Wikipedia. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruv

3. Telephone pole and tree picture from The Omnibus online Magazine, Architectural League of New York.

Threshold Project Statement:

After Several years living at the beach and observing the Eruv and its significance, after reading the Poetics of Space, I have chosen the idea of the Eruv, as a Treshold, since it is a reference to a wall. I leave the religious connotation, to use its powerful idea of how just a line can create a division from here and inside and outside. I also want to use this line in a reference to my last project: “How we Enjoy the beach” to give a message to public to protect public space: the beach from pollution: trash left behind from beach goers. The line I created in “How we enjoy the beach”, in which I hanged the variety of trash to raise the question to people Where does this trash suppose to belong? In the beach or out of the beach? To ask public, Please take it back. There is a strong psychological unconscious of how people are attached to things and the sense of propriety that confers to this things (the trash)a sense of authority to stay at the beach. Is that the Public want to leave a trace of experience or stay at the beach?. After I chose the idea of the Eruv as a threshold project, I started to investigate other artists who have done art work based on Eruvs, and I found in tabletmag.com the Artist Mell Alexander who works with the Eruv and the idea of Individual vs. Collective. I think this is a good foundation to enrich my project.

QCQ: Chapter 9, The Dialectics of Outside and Inside (p.211 - 231)

Q: “As soon as the word in appears in an expression, people are inclined no to take literally the reality of the Expression and the translate what they believe to be figurative language into researchable language.”

C: My understanding of this quote is that the word “In” used in an expression, has a tendency to be understood firstly rationally to avoid confusion and wrong interpretations, is a practical way to have an effective communication, but what Bachelard does, is to to place this same expression “In” in different contexts to exploit its possibilities in terms of meaning, because once the word “In” is an used within the realm of imagination, can be exploited indefinitely from different angles, psychological, philosophical, metaphysical and psychoanalytical as Bachelard discuss in this chapter. But then, Bachelard returns to the pure imaginative perspective with a philosophical angle to raise it up from the organic and material perspective and ends up turning into a phenomenological experience and in this way as He explains, erase materiality from the poetic words.

Q: Can I take away the materiality, physicality of a poetic sentence to enter into a new realm of thoughts, feelings and experiences ?

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