Joburg CBD, from Doornfontein to Newtown. A personal map I traversed end to end, by black taxi, by bus, mostly walking. What would be a sharp corner smoothly rounded, negotiating pedestrians, street vendors, traffic, in harmony with the inherent rhythm set by the people who used it. The broad, instant scan, the noticing in-motion, heart, mind, sight open in the midst of an apparent chaos. The order, once understood, carried one as if in a stream (of consciousness if you like). Decay, renewal, side by side seeming seamless.
The photograph’s first stop on its journey occurs in the middle of America, in Wichita KS at the home/work spaces of Holly Suzanne and Nathan Filbert – Ekphrastix Arts. We were happy to welcome the photograph from its creator, Emily Hughes, as it begins its journey throughout the world as an ekphrastic object – traveling from artist to artist to inspire work and alter as a work in itself through posting, handling, and use (follow its life or join in its progress at Journey of a Photograph).
Here is what our hands and minds have made with/of it…Holly worked with encaustic and mixed media to create the collaged pieces, and I worked with paper and pen and then personal computer to create the texts that accompany. The first image is a copy of the photograph from Emily.
Journeying
texts were composed with the visual works and this audio from Ludovico Einaudi:
Journeyofaphotograph 