This Friday's featured map artist is Arthur Huang and his series of Memory Walks installations! Each eggshell drawing represents a walk that Huang took during a particular month, and the eggs are arranged chronologically in grids to form a calendars!
Huang explains:
"For Memory Walks (The World Is Not Flat), each eggshell drawing represents a walk that I took during the month of September 2013. For example, going from my apartment to the train station, or going from the train station to the bus stop, or going from work to the supermarket. Each string of eggshells represents one day of walks going from September 1 to September 30. The location of each egg is the approximate time in which I took that particular walk with time going from top to bottom (9 am to 1 am). I make the drawings the day after the walks in order to see and experience how my memory reconstructs these walks and perceives time and space as compared to the actual walks and maps."
Huang explains:
"For Memory Walks (The World Is Not Flat), each eggshell drawing represents a walk that I took during the month of September 2013. For example, going from my apartment to the train station, or going from the train station to the bus stop, or going from work to the supermarket. Each string of eggshells represents one day of walks going from September 1 to September 30. The location of each egg is the approximate time in which I took that particular walk with time going from top to bottom (9 am to 1 am). I make the drawings the day after the walks in order to see and experience how my memory reconstructs these walks and perceives time and space as compared to the actual walks and maps."
Memory Walks (The World Is Not Flat)
Memory Walks (The World Is Not Flat)
Memory Walks (The World Is Not Flat)
For February 2014 Memory Walks (One Day and Two Months After), Huang writes:
"As with my previous Memory Walks project, each eggshell drawing represents a walk that I took during the month of February 2014. For example, going from my apartment to the train station, or going from the train station to the bus stop, or going from work to the supermarket.
For this project, I have installed two strings of eggshells for each day of February 2014. For each day, the left hand string of eggshells is my drawing of each walk the day after they were taken. The right hand string of eggshells is my drawing of each walk two months after they were taken. Again, the location of each egg is the approximate time in which I took that particular walk with time going from top to bottom. The pairs of eggshell string for this project are installed in a grid of 7 rows and 4 columns. February 1st in located in the back left corner of the booth, February 2nd is to the right of that, and so on until February 28th in the front right corner of the booth."
"As with my previous Memory Walks project, each eggshell drawing represents a walk that I took during the month of February 2014. For example, going from my apartment to the train station, or going from the train station to the bus stop, or going from work to the supermarket.
For this project, I have installed two strings of eggshells for each day of February 2014. For each day, the left hand string of eggshells is my drawing of each walk the day after they were taken. The right hand string of eggshells is my drawing of each walk two months after they were taken. Again, the location of each egg is the approximate time in which I took that particular walk with time going from top to bottom. The pairs of eggshell string for this project are installed in a grid of 7 rows and 4 columns. February 1st in located in the back left corner of the booth, February 2nd is to the right of that, and so on until February 28th in the front right corner of the booth."
February 2014 Memory Walks (One Day and Two Months After)
February 2014 Memory Walks (One Day and Two Months After)
During his residency at Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Arthur Huang made Memory Walk drawings for one day all on one eggshell! He states:
"I also included color coding to indicate when I used a mode of transportation other than walking to get to a different location. As with my previous Memory Walks project, each eggshell drawing represents walks that I took during my two weeks at AIAV. For example, going from the kitchen to the studio, the studio to the gallery, the studio to my room, the studio to towns around AIAV, etc.
For this installation, I placed each eggshell on a small cardboard ring. My Memory Walk drawings are arranged in three rows and five columns. The eggshells on days which I held Memory Walks workshops are surrounded by Memory Walk drawings of workshop participants."
"I also included color coding to indicate when I used a mode of transportation other than walking to get to a different location. As with my previous Memory Walks project, each eggshell drawing represents walks that I took during my two weeks at AIAV. For example, going from the kitchen to the studio, the studio to the gallery, the studio to my room, the studio to towns around AIAV, etc.
For this installation, I placed each eggshell on a small cardboard ring. My Memory Walk drawings are arranged in three rows and five columns. The eggshells on days which I held Memory Walks workshops are surrounded by Memory Walk drawings of workshop participants."
Akiyoshidai Area Memory Walks 12.13.14 - 12.27.14
Akiyoshidai Area Memory Walks 12.13.14 - 12.27.14
Learn more about Arthur Huang and his amazing conceptual art on his website at www.arthurjhuang.com!
Have a great weekend!
Have a great weekend!
