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so THIS is what happened:
i went to melbourne, and like anyone even mildy artistic, the street art WAY inspired me to put something out there in the real world, anonymously. guerrilla art, some call it. and so then i was chattering about all of the things i wanted to do, and my film makin friend saffron says 'im gonna film you doing it', and i say 'you cant make a film about me, i want to be anonymous', and SHE said 'i wont make a film about you, ill make a documentary about guerilla art'.
i tentatively agreed.
now theres a team of five people who ask me lots of questions and really listen to what i have to say (they appear to think i am cool, i guess inevitably they will discover that i am not, but for now its pretty fun!).
one of the things i am doing is wrapping knitted rectangles around poles *(reason below), in northbridge. i havent put any up yet, of course, they want to film me doing it. but i need some help getting enough rectangles completed before their filming date.
so im asking some of the people that i know (and in this particular request, use livejournal) liiike... anna! rachel! frog! caila! laura! sprout! ez! even brad and ferg and sean! if you wanna come over on tuesday night for a knitting party.
therell be wine and beer and knitting, and cupcakes if i can convince saffron to make them (she makes them much better than me). if you cant knit, its sooo easy, youll learn in like 45 seconds, seriously.
yeah that would be like awesome! youll be helping a... weird but generally good cause!
-renae-
*reason:
I sometimes go into the city when i feel a little lost, when i need to think, when i need inspiration. i go by myself and i just observe. one thing that always stands out to me, is the people that appear to be going through a routine. walking quickly, eyes cast downward, they know exactly where theyre going, theyve walked this route many a time before. they refuse to engage with theyre surroundings, they dont look happy, theyre just doing what they have to do.
and i wonder whether they ever question why they 'have to do it'. why do people live lives centred around jobs that depress them, or numb their brain, or rob them of time or energy to do anything else? to get money? to buy new things? to get by in this expensive world?
i think, that there is so much more to life than consumption, and than just getting by, than focussing your life on systematic processes.
so im putting something somewhere it doesnt belong. putting something fragile, delicate, creative, and relatively purposeless, in the shopping precinct of northbridge, in the hope that one person will see it, and wonder 'why did someone put that there', and that maybe that wondering will put a tiny hairline crack in their usual thought patterns. that maybe one person will think outside of their normal system of thinking, even just for a moment. im sure there is a 'more effective means to achieve such a goal' , but i want to do it this way, this time. there will be other ways and other times.
i went to melbourne, and like anyone even mildy artistic, the street art WAY inspired me to put something out there in the real world, anonymously. guerrilla art, some call it. and so then i was chattering about all of the things i wanted to do, and my film makin friend saffron says 'im gonna film you doing it', and i say 'you cant make a film about me, i want to be anonymous', and SHE said 'i wont make a film about you, ill make a documentary about guerilla art'.
i tentatively agreed.
now theres a team of five people who ask me lots of questions and really listen to what i have to say (they appear to think i am cool, i guess inevitably they will discover that i am not, but for now its pretty fun!).
one of the things i am doing is wrapping knitted rectangles around poles *(reason below), in northbridge. i havent put any up yet, of course, they want to film me doing it. but i need some help getting enough rectangles completed before their filming date.
so im asking some of the people that i know (and in this particular request, use livejournal) liiike... anna! rachel! frog! caila! laura! sprout! ez! even brad and ferg and sean! if you wanna come over on tuesday night for a knitting party.
therell be wine and beer and knitting, and cupcakes if i can convince saffron to make them (she makes them much better than me). if you cant knit, its sooo easy, youll learn in like 45 seconds, seriously.
yeah that would be like awesome! youll be helping a... weird but generally good cause!
-renae-
*reason:
I sometimes go into the city when i feel a little lost, when i need to think, when i need inspiration. i go by myself and i just observe. one thing that always stands out to me, is the people that appear to be going through a routine. walking quickly, eyes cast downward, they know exactly where theyre going, theyve walked this route many a time before. they refuse to engage with theyre surroundings, they dont look happy, theyre just doing what they have to do.
and i wonder whether they ever question why they 'have to do it'. why do people live lives centred around jobs that depress them, or numb their brain, or rob them of time or energy to do anything else? to get money? to buy new things? to get by in this expensive world?
i think, that there is so much more to life than consumption, and than just getting by, than focussing your life on systematic processes.
so im putting something somewhere it doesnt belong. putting something fragile, delicate, creative, and relatively purposeless, in the shopping precinct of northbridge, in the hope that one person will see it, and wonder 'why did someone put that there', and that maybe that wondering will put a tiny hairline crack in their usual thought patterns. that maybe one person will think outside of their normal system of thinking, even just for a moment. im sure there is a 'more effective means to achieve such a goal' , but i want to do it this way, this time. there will be other ways and other times.