pictures of my trip to de courcy

just uploading some images from my trip over to de courcy island (one of the three locations where the Aquarian foundation settled). a difficult place to get to-- had to go to nanaimo, take the ferry over to gabriola island, then drive to the other side of the island and was taken over to de courcy in a small fishing boat.

on de courcy, the boats pull in to a bay called pirates cove. john nayler, one of the four shareholders of the property that once belonged to the aquarian foundation, met me there and showed me around... this is an honor few people get! john is in his 70s (as are the other three owners) and not too keen on publicity. i took photos but had to work very quickly as we were constantly walking...

i don't think i will have time to actually edit these until i get to germany (am working ona very old and sloooooow laptop here) but at least they're on flickr for now.
you can click on the link below to see the full set...

i've also handwritten a short text about my day there-- seemed appropriate. i want to type that out once i have access to my typewwriter again...

www.flickr.com

AnnikaRixen's De Courcy Island photoset

mason jars

supposedly mason (canning) jars like this is what the brother stored his gold in, they were put in wooden crates to transport. i have been thinking about casting them... does not make sense to do it here. too heavy to take home, but have figured out it needs to be a fibreglass mold, and the way to do it. i've found some good jars at a thrift store and will bring them home with me.

The Invention of the World-- Jack Hodgins

thrift store find.

the invention of the world was a popular book in the pacific northwest from 1977 (why is everything i like from the 70s?). it's loosely based on brother xii-- but really a mixup of a whole bunch of island cults/communities and their charismatic leaders...

nice cover too.

old Texte zur Kunst issue-- Romantik

i took this volume of txk with me-- the roundtable discussion on romanticism with joerg heiser, felix ensslin, juliane rebentisch, andre rottmann and jan verwoert is really interesting. i guess i had not thought about the ways in which this project relates to romanticism, or romanticist tendencies/possibilities in relation to conceptual art until now. but i think it's actually quite relevant. i will need to incorporate this into my text outline.

"(...) one can grasp the notion of "romantic conceptualism" as expressing specific gestures of dissolution or incompleteness, gestures of the anti-systematic which subvert the clean solution, the tautological assurance of artistic work."
(joerg heiser)

it is kind of nice not to have read this earlier, to have come to some of the same conclusions/interests on my own... and then see that it actually lines up with some of the things these guys are discussing.

the difficulty of starting something...

first posts are always hard. where to start? i guess images arent' a bad place...

these are from a few days ago when i stopped on my way up from victoria in cedar, very close to where the aquarian foundation used to have part of their land...

for some reason the thought of mirrors and doubling has come up a lot. i suppose it does anyways in my work-- maybe it is that when things are doubled, there is no one true image any more, it's impossible to see which one is the 'right' one or which one is up...
anyway, as i said, it's just about finding a place to start.