#studio 2b

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My love, do you recall the object which we saw, That fair, sweet, summer morn! At a turn in the path a foul carcass On a gravel strewn bed, The poem then takes on a tone of sexual arousal. It is almost like there is a stirring of perverse lust directed toward the carcass. Its legs raised in the air, like a lustful woman, Burning and dripping with poisons, Displayed in a shameless, nonchalant way Its belly, swollen with gases. The fourth stanza describes something beautiful emerging from the decomposing animal, and for me, this is the key to unlocking the meaning of the poem: And the sky was watching that superb cadaver Blossom like a flower.

Charles Baudelaire, The Carcass

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Links to essays & articles on the Derive and psychogeography

http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/display/238 http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/display/2 http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.evans/psychogeog.html http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/display/2 http://www.slideshare.net/Prof_Rawlslyn/understanding-derivepsychogeography http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/avant-situ-apollinaire-derive-politics-third-dimension

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Reginald Van de Velde  is a photographer from Belgium who explores abandoned builds, whilst concentrating on reflective surfaces. this is how he creates the bright beams of light with in his images. This image seems to work really well due to the highlight down the centre of the room which seems to create a walk way.    

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Lori Nix is an American photographer who records disused buildings, most of which still have contents from their original use inside. I was particularly drawn to this image due to the way nature has made its way in through the crack in the wall. I also find the contrast in colour strange as usually artists try to bring brighten the natural elements up , where as Nix has chosen to concentrate on man made objects. 

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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.

Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

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Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.

William Shakespeare, Richard II

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To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.

Audrey Hepburn

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The Home and the World, Laura McPhee, ?   “Kolkata’s extraordinary domestic architecture (particularly the 18th and 19th century houses of the zamindars of North Kolkata, a caste of landowners made rich by the Company) tells the story of past and present, of the evolution from colony to independence and beyond. The houses were built by Indians for Indians (rather than by the British for the British) and they follow their own unique architectural conventions that reflect both domestic customs and religious use. The households I photographed consist of unusual amalgams of internationally derived architectural styles overlaid by details of family life and personal history seen in the objects that adorn the rooms. These spaces speak to the vicissitudes of economic life and of time, to incipient globalization, to the blending of history with contemporary living, to family and changing traditions, and to the long and complex material and political relationship between India and the west” - Taken from Laura McPhee’s website   To me this house just proves that my work has a place, Nature and Humans can live peacefully as one, we can live among nature and lord knows that it’s relaxing.