Blooming Voices and more...

ingrid (luxembourg)

Blooming Voices

When I made Blooming Voices, I was at work - with only few material lying around my desk, except for a pile of colorful invitations from a Museum to visit an exhibit celebrating the Portugal Carnation revolution. As I was editing an article centered on making assessment fairer for multilingual learners in higher education, I found that the words lying around were quite fitting: 'designing freedom', 'polyphonic dialogue', 'beautiful mosaic', 'democratisation process', 'jazz', 'complementary/contradictory narratives'  and I just re-arranged elements that were at my fingertips.

Sega Dance

The second piece I would call 'Sega Dance'. I made it the same day I did the Blooming voice collage. But this time, I used tiny objects students have offered to me over the years and that now sit on my desk, as my own little museum of objects.  I layered a pouch from China, squares of fabric from Japan, pebbles from France, on a wooden frame from Mauritius Islands. 

I loved how in both cases, in the absence of much raw material and support, a sort of 'arte povera' surged that spoke directly to my topic. 

Weird Abundance

Finally, inspired by Austin Kleon, I made some irreverent additions to an anthology of writing - building my own poetry on the poetry of others. Weird abundance speaks of the abundance that can be found in the mundane (and the celebratory cognac after !) 

A researcher who wants to know now

This speaks of the abundance that comes when we surrender to what's there, dabble our fingers in paint, and just ask a few interesting questions.

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