MarusaNotes

26-1-23 

I came across almost 100 year old letters of my great grand father to his girlfriend (later wife), while he was studying sculpture in Zagreb, Croatia. There are over 50 letters over 4 years and I typed one in Word and translated it. when I read all of them i will do with more of them as so there is also a lot of other documents like cuts from newspapers, magazines, all about his work.

Tomorrow i am going to the foundry where they are in the making of a copy of 4 sculptures for our house, and provided a chance to dig in to these documents to see how many copies have been made, as we have to set a limit (edition). Later on i will be chasing the sculptures around Slovenia and peoples' houses and documenting them, with photography and video. In the coming days I will scan the original letters and photographs.

He made a lot of sculptures of his family and he made memorials (the money from these provided the money to build the house we now live in.) Interesting to see how little changes over the hundred years. There are now a lot of big buildings. He had his studio in this house and we are now living in it. The dining room used to open out onto the garden, which was FULL of sculptures. Naked people and a sculpture of a horse; his style was quite classical with a little bit of sculptures of people who are not ideally proportioned; they were generally very precise and realistic. He made a portrait of Tito the president of Yugoslavia (amazing photos)... Some of the work is in the National Gallery in storage; some of it is owned by people privately (I will call them).

Plan: come back Rotterdam 1st Feb. I will go to the cemetery and document them; go through all the files when back in Rotterdam and make a plan. Thesis. Couple of letters and a bit of interview.

Steve: Your great grandfather was away studying away from home, like you.  This could be an interesting project and it might relate to your own wish to define home (this has been a recurring theme, remember your text about your garden at home last year, and your Maas tunnel project, which is about not feeling at home in Rotterdam. Finding a place). 
What matters with any project you make is that you organise a workflow and make your work visible. A wiki page for your  your creative diary would be great. You need to build on the work you presented and stick with this methods. 

Test for powerpoint: 

Mr Tunnel is a series of exercises with different methods (drawing, Photography psychogeographical maps, diary ) to understand my surroundings, to find a way to connect to the city of Rotterdam. It maps a daily journey from one side of the river to the other. 
Outcome: a human-sized installation that reflects these experiences and communicates them to others. 

Text by roommate: 

With images that were associated mostly with home shopping tickle entities but then also like flowers and nature things that I feel like we have in our house but also like just reminds me if I remember super cosy teddy bears in the car and then going along I guess my trips always a bit disjointed I kind of don't really focus in on everything it's usually at in matches insert it kinda displayed that here the mixture of like rooftops and doors and streets in one yeah I wanted to mix up the more industrial concrete images with the more natural ones too cause I feel like where we live is a lot of that so there is nature but it is all very kind of contains too like the man made we do have a lot of gardens that you see kind of a little unkept which I do like it's a good stable of South then by the master I wanted to get more of a Anne my dear of more scale you know the bigger buildings going high boots for me when I go through the muscular it's a going into the city which move by nominees is it like all skyscrapers but it's definitely taller buildings so I wanted to kind of show that AM and also for some reason that my son will this I associated with night time and all different types of transport so that's why I put it all out there and obviously the water and the final image had put up his own holding the speaker goes internurse like I get out once unlike across the tunnel you know like after you done over that kind of like yeah I'm here I'm in Sydney so yeah that was my Christmas.

Achievable aims for next time (12-1-23). Diary Thesis. First chapter, everything of student wiki; and the text of my house mate; account of activities &c. [keep a good account of workflow. SHOW!!] 

Achievable aims for next week Psychogeographical map of housemates. Record chat with them about what makes home for them. Sit in Mass tunnel and 'be' mr tunnel. 

Steve's commission: make drawings of the things you encounter; people you meet (who you can't photography).

[place this in proposal:

Method: Map from home to school.

I took my house mates on a walk on a sunny day . I explained psychgeography to them and handed them a camera. I asked them to capture the atmosphere of the street. Use the medium freely. Take a photo of something you find interesting. The we go to Maastunnel but how you choose the route is up to you. The group made 500 photos. I opted them into categories and printed them out. I then began to arrange them, ripping them up, visually creating a softer feel. I made connections with the string charting the route I take from my house to the tunnel.

I started to get lost in the map as it became more complex. I printed it twice so that the same material can be arranged differently by the group I commissioned to take the photographs.

Motivation: I feel detached from the streets I travel through daily, nothing excites or interests me, a pile of inert objects that get in my way. The maps are a way of connecting with the streets of Rotterdam and finding methods to make connections. .

Also:

Abstractly showing the chairs perspective. I have a smoke machine. Steve commissions to continue with the 'smoke aquarium' piece (it all relates to M. mapping the area and trying to find ways of relating to the Rotterdam.)Making a relation to place and to people. I want to make a place where people can relate so they are part of the space.

the map currently stops at **

There are free sections; the Maastunner the weather street (want to make intervention). Which colour yellow is the sun for you? making ways to encounter strangers.

• NOTE you have to keep making work, and showing

and the other side

• how can you use this diary as a psychogeographical map?

https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Calendars:Networked_Media_Calendar/Networked_Media_Calendar/08-12-2022_-Event_1