Ok, I got real flak now by some of the readers of this blog because I was so wage in my last post. Sorry. I did not think it would be so terribly interesting to talk about projects that are still in the making, furthermore, well, there is just a lot that still can happen and projects might shift. Apart for some logical reasons for not putting it all on the table right away.
But ok. Let me spill the beans a bit, right? I am so behind on everything do to my lost 3 months, that this might just give me a further push to hurry.
I actually listed the three new projects in the sidebar as work in progress already. Althought merely with working titles.
HUNTed Frankfurt is going to be 100% documentary. But in a different way. From a different angle. It is about the place I am living at in Frankfurt now. Most “normal” people would try to get away from here rather than to move to this area. But I just really, really love it. It feels much more real than the rest of Frankfurt.
Some of you might know “La Grande Bouffe”, a film (1973) directed by Marco Ferreri, starring Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret. More here and there is some in YouTube too, only that I do not have the time right now to preselect links for this post here … I will certainly come back to that later, even though I did get the dvd.
It is a critical film … so I cannot but smile when I go through google and see how they put a “wedding service” up with that name etc. I certainly would not want to be married under that star.
So two of my projects have a reference to that film. A smaller project, which only needs a couple of days additional work, and a larger one. More of an OPUS really, which will certainly need at least 2-3 years of work. The smaller one is highly conceptual, the larger one is documentary. I have a lot of expectation regarding both of them, especially because they will use a completely different approach to say a similar thing.
So much for the new projects.
Concerning the “old” ones, that I am working on again, I was talking about the “Catch me if I can” Journals.
I just came up with an additional way of presentation, as the original way, that I had planned, has still not found a way to be materialized in a way I could accept. That one is ready to be printed out. All settled and done. I will now make a series out of it, to broaden the message.
I was also talking about Wallpaper. Same same. Rework on it is done, all is ready for the printer and … it is definitively going to be a series.
Next would be “A Stranger’s Wish”.
It is amazing how things expand sometimes when you have time to think them over. I always had this hate-love relationship with this project. I knew what part I hated and so the point was to eliminate that part. I worked hard on this one, and then I put it into a drawer for some time. The best thing to do when I get stuck – and the reason why I like to work on so many different projects simultaneously. It actually is not simultaneously, but it gives me time to step back and get a fresh look at things. “A Stranger’s Wish” – or the postcard project – evolved into various different branches. Each of which I like now. No. Each of which I LOVE! So it was a good thing after all.
Concerning the old projects, my first aim was merely to get them OUT there. They were finished, but I never worried about having them published or displayed because I was already working on the next projects. It is more interesting for me to work on projects than to worry about them once they are done. Nevertheless it leaves this feeling of incompleteness … And I cannot really present the project on the website either. It is stupid. So that was my main reason to get back to them. Just – and I knew that would happen – once I look at them again, I need to work on them again too. Not necessarily in a sense of change, but in a sense of addition. I just become aware of further possibilies that I REALLY would LOVE to add to it. All my projects really go in chapters. And probably they will accompany me until my last days. Who needs more projects, right? What is a project anyway? For me it is nothing but a name for something that I am interested in as a person. An idea. A concept. And I will still be interested in this after the end of a specific project … so it is no wonder it feels like I could go on turning that theme around in my hands.
Everything I do here, including the Illustration&photography posts, is of utter importance to me. I think about it and work with it regardless of if I write about it or not. It has always been like this, there is no reason for it to change. Especially not as long as the topics are fairly universal. And my topics are universal. “Meaning”, right? It is all about that one. Everything I do. So much so that I will probably take it away as a project and just write a blogpost about it. At the end of the day “Meaning” is the only project I am working on. Every other project could be considered as a subproject.
Sorry, rereading the post, I see that everything is still cryptic. Actually I am a little overwhelmed. I DID think until recently, that I was doing a monologue type of thing here. I did not look at the statistics, which tell me that I have several hundred readers here every day. So my feeling of responsibility just did a big awakening jump. I might find a way to show some work-in-progress type of thing. Maybe with a newsletter that requires registering. Let me think about this for a while.
