Schematic Tantrums
At this breathtaking pace, Kalingalinga will become history in the few years to come, and the memory will linger on in the photographic narrative taken in this workshop. It is history in the making through images, and being part of it makes me proud to project my perspective by focusing on mobility found or existing in Kalinglinga.
My focus was drawn on the wheelbarrow found at the Charcoal
market, near the main school ground. There are two wheelbarrows for the market,
belonging to the collective of charcoal sellers used strictly for delivering
charcoal around Kalingalinga. The wheelbarrows are mostly used early in the
morning to do deliveries, but beyond deliveries, my interest drew me further to
get close-ups of wheelbarrows to magnify details of its engineering and
mechanism, this revealed another dimension to create images that made up new
interpretations, also relating to my painting practice of schematic tantrums.
The close-ups are by-product of the whole process bringing a
new body of work, celebrating schematic tantrums, expressing the same lines and
dots found in my paintings, creating abstract expressions out of the realistic
images. This was the best improvisation to come out of the shooting process,
stumbling on the images that would happen at an opportune moment of shooting.
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