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I was watching Euphoria where the character Jules talks about the water, and that she wants to be as beautiful as the ocean. I really like these scenes at the beach. The colour palette, the way it’s filmed and that it can feel almost a bit suffocating. And I like the way she talks about the sea as well. It gives me an idea of how my own work could work out, and how different the tone of the voice and music makes you experience the visuals. If they played a more upbeat song and were talking about playing at the beach this clip would have been experienced completely different. 

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A NEW LOVE IN TOKYO / 1994 / BANMEI TAKAHASHI

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Ulla - Spain (by Noel Feans) 

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BigBlackSea

Mari showed me this video the other day when we were meeting to talk about what we could do for the thematic seminar project. I thought this was also a very fitting video for my project in Studio III where I want to focus on the sea. It is very simplistic in the way it’s made but I think it works very well, and you get the notion of the sea and wind anyway. 

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Theodor Kittelsen - Nøkken // Gutt på hvit hest // Nøkken som hvit hest

The nykur dwells in water; at the bottom, down in the depths, he has his lair; from here he often goes onto land and it is not good to meet him.

Sometimes he is like a beautiful little horse which seems to be good and tame, and thus he lures people to draw near to him to pat him and stroke him along the back. But when they come to touch the tail, they become stuck fast to him and then he releases no-one, but he drags them with him to the bottom of the water.

Sometimes he encounters people in human form, as a handsome youth, to lure young women to himself, and promises them joy and gladness in his hall if they want to go along with him. But if they get a suspicion of who he is, when they are giving themselves away, such that they can call him by his true name — nykur — then he loses the power over them and must release them and go along into his waters.

It is said that the nykur can equally well change itself into the form of all quadrupedal animals, except that he does not know how to create the horn-points of a ram or a male lamb on himself.

But when he hasn't changed his form, he is like a horse, and it has come about that people gain power over him by carving a cross into his back and then they have been able to have him drag great stones by his tail down from the mountains to homesteads or houses. Some are still seen in Húsavík in Sandoy and on Eiði in Eysturoy and the big rocks that are gathered together there bear witness to how strong he is. At Takmýri in Sandoy, lies one huge rock, which they wanted to have him draw to Húsavík, but his tail broke here, and the stone remains there. One part of the nykur's tail, which was attached to the stone, is visible on it still https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neck_(water_spirit)

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Looked at this short clip after it was suggested to me from Rafael. Be like water. 

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Wolfgang Tillmans, The State We’re In A, 2015

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Wolfgang Tillmans In Flight Astro (II), 2010

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Wolfgang Tillmans

Fire Island, 2015

Courtesy Galerie Buchholz

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Wolfgang Tillmans, Tag/Nacht III, 2015.

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Wolfgang Tillmans

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Wolfgang Tillmans - La Palma, 2014

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In Studio II we are working on what a collaboration is and how to do so. For the class on 03.12.2020, we had to bring our own examples of where there is a collaboration. This work by Charlotte Schmitz - la puente, was brought to class by Patricia.  It is shot on polaroids, and then the women could obscure their identity or add to the photographs how they liked. From what I understood, from Patricia’s explanation of this project, they used nail polish to do so. 

I think this is a very nice way to do a collaboration. The images are exposed after just a few minutes, and ready to be intervened with. In another sense, you also have the opportunity to see the images as a ‘printed’ image quickly after it being made. If one of the participants in the ‘making of’ the image doesn’t like the outcome, one can adjust it and make a new image straight away. 

Personally I have used polaroids a lot, but mostly for fun and not so much in the light of a project. This shows for me the possibilities that is out there, and how to include your ‘subject’ in a different level as well.

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In Studio II we are working on what a collaboration is and how to do so. For the class on 03.12.2020, we had to bring our own examples of where there is a collaboration. This work by Andrew Robinson - Voices from the ‘hood’, was brought to class by Will. What I like about this is 1) the fact that these different kids have taken photographs themselves and written a note to them. There is different handwriting and voices that come across in this project this way. 2) I think that one get a feel that the different kids had a say in how they were portrayed in their portraits as well. They are all doing different things that they probably feel is enhancing and adding to their own identity.