Sun. Сън. Dream.

Sometimes my dreams end with an image or a tune. Sometimes i try to draw it or sing it right away when I open my eyes, kind of materialize it and bring it to "this" world. This is the picture I woke up with the other day. Sun. I drew it and wrote down in Bulgarian - СЪН - which you pronounce like "Sun" in English. But actually I wrote it, cause СЪН means "Dream".
Sun. Сън. Dream.
Isn't that trippy?

Organic Data

Two monsters of installations, that changed my day. Seen at Transmediale.

So there are these two completely different works. The one is operating with analog material, the other uses digital data as a source. The common thing - they both visualize information, although being constructed so differently, and even refer to eachother's aproaches. So amazing! I felt like dreams coming true - the analogue world refering to the possibilities of the digital vizualization, the digital work trying to materialize data!

The first installation is by Latvian Artist Žilvinas Kempinas, and consist of VHS Tape, light and air. It seems that this artist always uses tape and air. Simply beautiful!
For Transmediale he installed a work called "White Noise". Cant describe the galant movement of the tape and the flattery sound and the feeling when you stand in front of it. You can't believe it's real!






Second flash - Ryoji Ikeda's "Datatron". Amazing data vizualization and sound, projected with several beamers on a huuuge wall. The work is operating with data as a basic material, transforming and organizing it in a graphical way, trying to aproach the aesthetic of a barcode-defined futuristic society.


In both of the rooms I felt like being IN the visual information. As someone being occupied with thoughts about "analog or/vs/with/in digital" every day, seeing these works made me think about the connection of all ways of vizualization nowadays, in order to make things "clear". And proved that besides tape I find codes and data really beautiful.

I met a guy from London while waiting at the queue, who said he was an IT-Consultant and programmer, and that he doesn't actually have an art-point of view or knowledge about art, and that he came to the the exhibition to kill some time. At my question how he liked the tape-installation and the reference to the digital vizualization he said: "Yeah, very interesting, but when I look at things like that I am always like: why?".




* analogue shots from the works coming soon

january extract

when you are in berlin, when it's the winter, when it's the cold winter, when it's the beginning of the year, when the hope of future warmness is helping you go through the coldness, when you love the snow and in the same time imagine late evening sunsets, i was walking around with all those things on my mind, trying not to fall down...

*feels like ice skating on the streets here


a forgotten drawing was found


made this on blank 16mm:



divided the space


i said yes...


went to a party


where it said this


have a new scarf


landed at a freelance job with this view, yo


made the prototype for a head-monitor-hatstyled-box, which is displaying thoughts



went to school like there's no future


played synthesizer for the future:
Second Spirit by dfromtheb

Circulations

One of the first visual experiments of the year 2010 - animating direct on 16mm film. The music is from recordings I did some time ago with my Casio Sk1.
Glad it worked out! A small tribute to all the experimental visual artists, who started and developed this technique about 100 years ago.

Happy Xmas and a wonderful New Year! Love, flow and glow!

At The Beloved Ones'

Last month I went back to the roots to visit my parents, my grandma and some friends. It was amazing, beautiful wheater, great to see and talk to beloved people, and all in all - good times. Here some views and objects I collected.


This is in my dad's hometown Svilengrad, next to the border with Turkey and Greece. My grandma lives there and it's the most chilled place in Bulgaria for me, everytime I enter her house, I am falling in a relaxed deep sleep.This wall killed me, because since a couple of months I want to paint a wall like this:


Sunset in my grandma's garden:


Sunday pancakes action at my music teacher from school's place. Rad pancakes, coffee and homemade sour cherry liqueur. And her new born grandchild!


In my face: the wall in my old room every morning:


Heritage from my beloved grandfather, who passed away some years ago. I just picked it up. He was a passionate photographer, with his own dark room in the kitchen, tons of diapositive slides, etc. So I found a book "Colour Photography", a diapositive film-viewer, a black and white film (expired 92), his favorite pen (which i have to take care of very well) and the graphite fillers for it. Check out those layouts!!?!

rays, prisms and a flash

Want to be in that again. Outside rain and darkness. Going there and i dont care, chasing rays until they flash me.