Fictitious city

For the course of Pratiques de Lieu, we are continuing work on the motorway rest-stop near Martigny. The collective idea is beginning to take shape in the form of a fictional town, inhabited by the people working at or passing through this place, the experiences they may have there, etc. Temporary residents in a permanent place. As part of my contribution i decided to look up the location on instagram to see if people uploaded photos of the area. There was only a dozen or so, but I thought to add their images onto the billboards located in the car park, so that their personal experience can be shared with other visitors if desired. Here is an example

This past weekend, we had a small workshop at Movimax specifically for the residents of the Auberge, where a lady from the school office taught us how to make our own bathroom commodities, such as toothpaste, face cream, shampoo, etc. She had an enormous range of essential oils and other materials with her, all her own! The aim was to help us become more self-sustainable, and also to give an insight into what we may or may not know we are putting on our skin.

Me and Chelsea also took our first visit to Fribourg, to a tattoo convention, which we came away from sadly tattoo-less because we couldn't seem to make ourselves spend over 100.- 

Aside from this, in my own work I have begun to take a much more personal approach myself. I’m currently adding to a document of memories based around my father, and creating visual work alongside in the process. I already feel both motivated and challenged, but I hope to continue this into my year at Coventry, as I predict it to be a long project with many possibilities. Here I think it will be mainly taking place as numerous paintings and drawings, whereas back in the UK it will begin to take form in larger installations and with use of objects and photographs.

Genève encore un fois

This past weekend was the 87th international motor show in Geneva, and so I went over on the Sunday to meet up with my uncle and two cousins who had been at the show since friday. They were expecting me to show them around, but sadly I know the airport better than i know the city, and they had actually been there more times than me! Anyway, I took them to visit MAMCO to see some art, I’d like to say that they were impressed but I think they were longing to go back and continue looking at lovely cars.

Concerning school work, for the Location Practices (Pratiques de Lieu) we took a trip to Martigny, as our collective aim for this class is to create art pieces to place within the grounds of the Marché Relais Saint-Bernard, a rest stop on the motorway outside of the city.