Ever since I arrived to Berlin I have been searching different confetti for the project and yesterday I decided that it is enough! I can make my own and in that way I can really decide about the quality, the shapes and the colours !
So here I show you the two varieties I made !
Somehow I also start thinking about the confetti shootings as actual drawings. Relating them to the whole idea of the absolute present...what could be better that a confetti happening? what is more ephemeral than that!?- Of course I will document everything...you know-.
In the other post I added the pre -text of the project in English and now I add it in English:
Confetti
This title frames a series of actions consequence of using confetti. I propose this material as a symbol that really shows the inflexion point in perception when it is used: the moment you scream ¡Surprise! Or when we celebrate new years eve among others. It makes the difference, it makes a “ It is not what is was before” (before you didn't know there were thirty people hidden in your living room to celebrate your birthday and now you do). Other materials have been used with the same aim as the raw rice in weddings (before you were single and now you are not).
Then, we can say that confetti is P-R-E-S-E-N-T in capital letters. That kind of present that achieves immortality in the photographs forever.
It has some features that really help to the assumption of this symbol. It is formed by dozens of colorful, soft and light small pieces of paper. In this way it can fill the space and invade the atmosphere very quickly. Because of all this, confetti really gets into you physically and emotionally.
A consequence of being such a P-R-E-S-E-N-T thing is that its life is really short. I think those little pieces of paper don't even have to touch the floor to die. It seems that as soon as they are perceived, as soon as the messenger gives the message, it is over. We don't even have to say how annoying it becomes as soon as it gets the floor and mixes with liquids and other common elements found on the party floor.
Personally, I think it is a material that symbolizes and illustrates the here and now. The “live the present” that is recommended by this new and famous spiritual guru Echhart Tolle in his book “The power of now”.
But, what if...we freeze it!? What if we stop that moment and analyze it from multiple angles? And observe it looking for performance patterns! Speed curves! Physics models that represent it! Well...I think Eckhart Tolle would totally disagree with our way of trying to understand the present. But what the hell! I am sure he is doing bottox! Oh gosh.. Is it less reprehensible? Doesn't everybody try to freeze those moments considered perfect? Trying to extend orgasms throughout tantric sex, keeping the youth (usually lost already) or holding a smile for fifty seconds until the timer shoots the pic, these are the day by day of our present, past and future.
That is why I want to study confetti, analyze it from multiple points of view using as many tools as I can. It doesn't really offer any functional information but, as David Armengol says talking about Fermin Jimenez Landa works, “[the trap and the fiction] is an invalid resource in science but highly seductive in art”
The formal concretion of the project will be a series of photographs and drawings of confetti launches as the previous studies to build some sculptures of it afterwards to keep each piece of paper in the climax forever, preventing them from loosing their value.
So far I started to shoot confetti launches from one point of view and I will start shooting theme from multiple points of view to Be Able to create three-dimensional PLANS for the sculptures.
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