ROOMS

I have been living my life:

I have been thinking about what could feel meaningful or motivating to me in this unusual time
I have been trying to focus on my needs, daily duties, desires and others
I have been reading a lot – it has been nice to be able to do after a long time
I have been empowering myself with music
I have been writing stream of thought, making notes and listening to audio books
I have been practicing how to better use the camera of my phone and to edit videos
I have made sloppy notes when feeling like it
I have been thinking about my body sensing and relating
I have been combining the last two
I’ve been approaching my everyday life as a source for artistic work and the “ordinary” as a multilayered platform to reflect and be
I have tried to give space/attention to these everyday/ordinary things, events and spaces I occupy
I have been thinking about the domestic me, the animal me, the domesticated animal me
I have been trying to dream a process, and myself doing, being

I have been trying to practice
stopping (allowing)
thinking of what it could mean to be non-creative (being and observing as a source)
not working (resting and taking care as a “force”)
and “working besides”; thinking of these as a part of my “art”, supported by others/things/beings

I have been lazy
I have been thinking about potentiality
I have been thinking of saying ‘no’ to working as a need, and a necessary part of the process in order to resist the expectations and pressures that I imagine
I have tried to gently address the issues and frictions that this way of working raises, awakens or opens
I have been trying to cope with not-knowing what I’m working towards
I have been trying to learn how to share

I have chosen to use the pictures I have taken with my phone and some texts I’ve written during this process as material and the basis for this documentation
I have chosen to divide these narrow glimpses into three different rooms that I visit daily
I have chosen to focus on arranging and editing a collage/landscapes from what these materials propose
I have chosen to use microsoft word as the platform to edit and interfere with the material, intuitively
I have decided to (try to) have fun and enjoy doing it
I have decided to exclude the selfies
I have decided that what is not here, documented or visible is at least equally as important as the outcome in this process
I have accepted the lack of resources and materials
I have accepted that this work is cacophonic and scattered in its attention
I have accepted that this way of working might not feel motivating or like I am making art at all


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