15 May 2018

Minutes from 1st Pameran Poskad meeting with 3 other members whom I will be showing together with during mid-June.

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• ((right now my brain is actually quite tired so I see what I can squeeze out of my head))

• whether a defined character creates a sense of a character, rather than a person that audience/users/others are able to project themselves upon

  • depends on whether I am consciously creating a character

  • C: or else it can be done in two separate ways? to either make a large variety of characters so that people understand that all these people represent a multitude of normal people

  • or an abstract blob like the Pink Blob Sticker Pack on Telegram haha, which is abstract and therefore everyone can project themselves upon it and therefore it is successful

  • I said I think I may be making a character?

  • At this point I'm not sure because this is a start and I don't want to define anything so early on in a project

  • I did want to make a character

  • Because to make different characters would imply that I can see what I'm investigating: love, in many different perspectives

  • Which is not true. I can only see it from one perspective: my own. Which is a perspective in which I don't know anything about love or soulmates or where these things and ideas come from which is the basis for my project.

• the importance of transmitting my ideas

  • S: have to maybe write it down in a blog post or something so the people who buy it will see

  • maybe a piece of paper slipped into the bag

  • after discussing a while I realized, it wasn't that important to me

  • 1. the work was a starting experiment. essentially, I have nothing to say as of now, because this project is full of questions. I'm not trying to say anything, I'm just trying to find out

  • 2. I like the ambuiguity and the confusion. It's what I feel too.

  • 3. I chose badges because I feel like it can be nothing to everyone else, but it can mean everything to you. It can be subtle, it can start a conversation, it can be close to your heart.

  • 4. It doesn't matter to me whether the person wearing my pin understand what it means. For me, I want that to be conveyed in the glances of the figure (// old western painting), in the emptiness of the background, in the burning non-existence in the second series. I want it to be implied, but not said. 

  • 5. I just imagine my pin, my thoughts, my ideas, bobbing along on the chest of a faceless person and it makes me happy.

  • Maybe they could collide