the following artists are : Fausta Facciponte,Grazyna Ziolkowski,Jim Riley,Marlene Kawalez,Sonja Hida,vJane Gordon, Ron Langin, Linda Finn, Jaime Ruddy, Nick Dubeki and Mercedes Cueto
the images are accidental. i was holding the camera hanging from my hand. i often use my video camera as a hand to kind of "draw" images across a space the way I would use graphite powde on a chamois.I often get very blurry swishy stills by doing this. I was primarily interested in the resonating qualities of the interior of the chimney. The camera was hanging at the end of my arm to record the sounds I made by just opening my throat into the space. It wasn't exactly a mysterious experience. It was in fact enjoying my voice transformed by the characteristics of the space into something better.
The first time I was on the inside of a smokestack was when I worked as a summer student for INCO while attending Laurentian University. I am not mechanically inclined at all but here I was working as a Mechanic's Helper. Our job required that we do maintenance at the base of the stack in the converter isle however the concentration of sulphur was so strong that my nose started to bleed and my eyes were burning. Not a pleasant experience. My second experience almost 40 years later was with VJane at the abandoned Coniston smokestack. To watch her perform her ritual with the sacred wood and paint images on the outside of the stack with red oxide powder both new and inspiring. As she entered into the smokestack with light bleeding through the four lower doorways into the darkness and to witness the distant shape of the daylight so high above me was a memorable moment. The gutteral sounds VJane was making only heightened the moment for me. To spend your whole life in the presence of these great stacks that dominate the landscape is one thing but to enter into that space the source of the great smoke is a time I can't ever forget. VJane's video brings back and heightens that experience for me.
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mysterious images and sound
hi punkie,
the images are accidental. i was holding the camera hanging from my hand. i often use my video camera as a hand to kind of "draw" images across a space the way I would use graphite powde on a chamois.I often get very blurry swishy stills by doing this. I was primarily interested in the resonating qualities of the interior of the chimney. The camera was hanging at the end of my arm to record the sounds I made by just opening my throat into the space. It wasn't exactly a mysterious experience. It was in fact enjoying my voice transformed by the characteristics of the space into something better.
Vjane
I don't know that I believe in Accidental. I love the light, the door and the echoing sounds, The SPACE.
Sonja
The first time I was on the inside of a smokestack was when I worked as a summer student for INCO while attending Laurentian University. I am not mechanically inclined at all but here I was working as a Mechanic's Helper. Our job required that we do maintenance at the base of the stack in the converter isle however the concentration of sulphur was so strong that my nose started to bleed and my eyes were burning. Not a pleasant experience.
My second experience almost 40 years later was with VJane at the abandoned Coniston smokestack. To watch her perform her ritual with the sacred wood and paint images on the outside of the stack with red oxide powder both new and inspiring. As she entered into the smokestack with light bleeding through the four lower doorways into the darkness and to witness the distant shape of the daylight so high above me was a memorable moment. The gutteral sounds VJane was making only heightened the moment for me. To spend your whole life in the presence of these great stacks that dominate the landscape is one thing but to enter into that space the source of the great smoke is a time I can't ever forget.
VJane's video brings back and heightens that experience for me.
Ron
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