September 24, 2009
September 20, 2009
September 18, 2009
September 15, 2009
Afters
photographs - Kendall Koppe
Afters : an edible collaboration with Mair Hughes for Posthumous Humus at the final A.Vermin show in Glasgow.
In keeping with the exhibition's themes of commemoration, conflagration and community, small, grey sweetmeats were created to be consumed over the course of the exhibition. All of the offerings were dusted and infused with charcoal, a traditional means of purification.
We never eat grey food. These gritty, dusty morsels were initially repellent, but intrepid visitors were rewarded with bright jeweled interiors and unexpected flavours.
August 19, 2009
August 16, 2009
July 29, 2009
April 29, 2009
Quebec
(before)
(before)
(after and close, close, close)
(after, step back)
(after, all the way back)
Launched on the Clyde in 1865 and sailed on through to Canada, past Montreal and through to Ottawa and then scrapped in 1938.
It took me a little while to find some neglected ties, but eventually a couple peeked out from a thicket of rose bushes. I crouched down to snip the old ones off, and tie the new one on, my legs cramping, co-workers walking past. An obscure image in an awkward location. This is a week where I wanted a ship that knew the same waters that I knew. I left it down there low, next to the ashes.
March 24, 2009
Onward
(before)
(after)
(after - closer)
Launched on the Clyde on 11.03.1905 and scrapped in 1948.
I clipped down two tiny white ties and put up Onward with the morning traffic constant below the footbridge. It was still there on my way back from work on Monday. Today I walked by it again and just forgot to look.
March 17, 2009
Monday March 16th, 2009 : 4898, 1
Steps
(step 2334)
4898 steps
3.33 kilometers walked
For most of the day I had my pedometer in my pocket, for most of the day I thought about you.
Stitches
(tangled in frustration)
one row knit
Over the weekend I coaxed half of a ball of yarn onto my needles and into my patterns. Today I knit three rows and they were all wrong. I started over and over again until I managed one serviceable row.
