#City

… perfection! Well, perfection as such doesn’t exist but in this context “until it feels right”… and I have the feeling that I am slowly getting there with the book. Though I am still fighting with myself in letting go of photos!

 

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So, quite a few hours of heart ache, head ache and all kinds of tantrums behind me - but there you go, the first “complete” test book. The intro text is not there yet, I will hopefully soon have it squeezed out of my head… Some of the pages are double, this is just because I haven’t yet made my mind up which one I should go for. But for this reason and a few more, I am looking forward to the tutorial on Friday with Peter Fraser, though I have to admit, I am nervous… I am curious to know what he has to say about my editing and design “skills”, reactions have been mixed so far. [Read More]

During yesterdays tutorial the question was raised whether the project should be called Via Miracoli or not…? This remark kind of catapulted me, quite literally, into SPACE! I was addressing this issue at the dinner table and I was asked to explain why I have chosen to name the project “Via Miracoli”… hmm… to put it simply: It is about this street. Even though the project is based on Walter Benjamin’s essay on Naples as a whole (AND the city as porous, of course) I can not pretend that I have covered a bigger radius of the city. [Read More]

Back in the UK for a while now and finally an blog update on the project. As already mentioned during my stay in Napoli the project made a U-turn with my friends decision not to take part in the project. Change is the nature of all things and flexibility is required in the process of producing a work - it was a tricky moment though and at first I was a bit in despair but had to accept the situation… [Read More]

So, here I am in Napoli! And this is now my reality for the next 6 weeks… time is passing fast, I vividly remember the start of the Masters but now we are already working on our major projects! Earlier on in May Napoli has been in the news once more; there was again a huge problem with the rubbish, “Munnezza” as it is called in Neapolitan dialect, and the issue is still unresolved. [Read More]