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From September 20, 2020 to October 19, 2020, I participated in a daily video messaging exchange with Lapdiang. Every day, we sent each other 5 second videos and became barometers of each other’s rngiew. When taking rngiew as judgement, the person being judged can have a solid, eh, rngiew or a soft, jem, rngiew. A solid rngiew can mean you emit, manifest, or invite good fortune. The opposite, a soft rngiew, can mean you emit, manifest, or invite misfortune. Lapdiang’s video clip would arrive as a phone message and I would respond in Khasi with an audio recording, “I think your rngiew is solid today.” She would do the same.

Parallel to the exchange, at the end of each day, I would generate a 1000x1000 pixel image with computer code in the Processing development environment. This coding would first begin in poetry that loosely translated how I felt about that day. Then I would think of a way in which this snippet of word could be a digital image, like painting or mark making but with a line of code. The code would generate abstract geometric shapes.

30 Days of Rngiew