Making Do
Photograph by Joseph Hole
NEW ISSUE
Making Sense
This issue of Making Do attempts to explore the process of "making sense" as a method of creative production, making sense in the space between reality and fantasy. What happens in that space, the often nervous frequency between the real and the non-real?
Using and pushing the process further, the editors have decided to not even attempt to make sense of each other by working together. Instead, they have each visited that territory separately and with the company of their contributors - the results of which, was then put together in an envelope. The reader holds the evidence of these journeys.
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Mary Ikoniadou presenting works of Petros Chrisostomou
Issue 2 - Making Sense
I first came across Petro's work through thumbnails on Google Images. This was my entry into magical and sometimes unsettling worlds of fairytales and memories, worlds that have fed my imagination ever since. My journey continued through Petros' free-standing sculptural maquettes as well as his large scale photographic prints. For this edition of Making Do, I wanted to share the magic in the size I first encountered it in.
Mary Ikoniadou
I suppose that the way in which my work is being received by an audience is very linear and multiplied. The fact that my work can be blogged and re-blogged, and that a moment or even a perceived moment- albeit the same transfixed identical image- is a phenomenal experience for me. In fatal theories of simulacra by Baudrillard he states that the pilots in the gulf war did not have direct contact with their targets- more like a computerised screen to view from, and that the infantry were following the progress of the war via CNN news channel and in doing so argues a case for the war to have been a fiction. In some ways I see my work creating a cultural history for itself through its own self perpetuation, the momentum it gathers is uncontrollable to me, therefore I somehow view this as an abstracted reality that has a removed relationship with me.
Petros Chrisostomou
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Mary Ikoniadou presenting works of Petros Chrisostomou
Issue 2 - Making Sense
I first came across Petro's work through thumbnails on Google Images. This was my entry into magical and sometimes unsettling worlds of fairytales and memories, worlds that have fed my imagination ever since. My journey continued through Petros' free-standing sculptural maquettes as well as his large scale photographic prints. For this edition of Making Do, I wanted to share the magic in the size I first encountered it in.
Mary Ikoniadou
I suppose that the way in which my work is being received by an audience is very linear and multiplied. The fact that my work can be blogged and re-blogged, and that a moment or even a perceived moment- albeit the same transfixed identical image- is a phenomenal experience for me. In fatal theories of simulacra by Baudrillard he states that the pilots in the gulf war did not have direct contact with their targets- more like a computerised screen to view from, and that the infantry were following the progress of the war via CNN news channel and in doing so argues a case for the war to have been a fiction. In some ways I see my work creating a cultural history for itself through its own self perpetuation, the momentum it gathers is uncontrollable to me, therefore I somehow view this as an abstracted reality that has a removed relationship with me.
Petros Chrisostomou
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