-PROVFLUX ARTIST-
one hundred and three things
by Leah Beeferman
1. systems 2. city resting on the head of a crane 3. electricity and activity 4. circuits and layered meanings 5. cranes as symbols 6. street lamps 7. interaction with environment 8. repetition 9. hiding and invisible elements 10. romanticism. i like to look. immediacy of writings, drawings, and prints, and the complex relationships between the three 11. city as self? identity 12. connections and relationships and dependencies and change. 13. electricity as activity and source of energy. and change. 14. two layers = symbolism, and the city itself. 15. studying city as studying self. 16. obsession with drawings. 17. perfectionism 18. limits of style and style as self 19. creating space 20. trains of thought 21. boldness vs frailty = delicacy, sensitivity, bouancy 22. mapping, studying, seeking out. searching, satisfying. changing, making, taking. 23. betterment = urban planning. 24. exploiting resources 25. transit/travel/movement 26. systems as trains of thought 27. observant buildings 28. things where the warehouses used to be 29. collections making a whole 30. public transportation 31. drawing = immediate like writing. 32. printmaking lets you replace immediacy over and over in a controlled fashion. 33. layers 34. transportation systems. 35. airplanes 36. subways 37. highways (bus/car) 38. the sparseness & extravagance of a mountainous landscape 39. study of crane power inside a larger system 40. place 41. immediate sensation 42. making my own environment and setting 43. airplanes 44. architecture, what it means structurally - backbone for other elements 45. being enclosed by a city 46. structures stand still - see static things 47. urban change 48. personify still objects 49. sounds 50. the coming and going using the elevator, the city spread out on all four sides 51. transportation 52. airplanes 53. revisiting old imagery and ideas 54. fragments, series of fragments 55. let’s keep walking until we reach a new neighborhood 56. color 57. bus a viewing room on wheels 58. in order for this to be genuine it has to come from an honest place 59. sometimes i think in colors, like a city is a color or the color of cities 60. then it’s a make your own city or find your own city 61. city connect the dots 62. reward the viewer, visually 63. transportation = movement, travel, displacement, change 64. let’s talk about lights 65. architecture as a broader structure 66. architecture holds cities together, exists as a framework, creates a map.
67. circuits
68. routes
69. transit
70. travel
71. transport
72. displacement 73. men in buckets on cranes fixing traffic lights 74. cranes waving rows of buildings 75. copying and recopying 76. smokestacks near point street rising above 141 transit 77. power of an industrial building 78. sturdy vs. wobbly 79. rainwater running down streets 80. populate it with movement and sound 81. buildings as characters 82. build a character like you build a building 83. bridges - crossable, traversable 84. cranes build things and move them and pull them 85. construction 86. book that constructs itself 87. destruction and reconstruction 88. for me: not really a destruction, just a fade out and slowly get replaced 89. urban planners create inhabitable, interpretable space 88. anima in animation means give it soul, not just life 90. drawing for projection 91. retreat into projection 92. projection of self 93. really big scale or really small scale 94. write down the small things 95 draw the big things 96. draw the big things small to encourage looking 97. buildings 98. build and climb around 99. voyeurism 100. coded things, transformed before made visible 101. 2 cranes set out on a journey 102. the tops of buildings 103. dualities: noise and silence, movement and stillness, melancholy and exciting, bold and delicate.
Leah Beeferman is an artist and designer about to graduate
from Brown University with degrees in visual arts and art history. Some of
her current projects include working on the production staff of Chaise dvd
magazine, interning at a small design firm in Pawtucket, finishing school,
and preparing for “Drawn Circuits,” a drawing and sound installation
that will be part of Provflux (see “Satellite Galleries”). You
can also see her work at www.inkbox.org.
