Completed Painting: 'Das Schloss 2 [motion.flag.pages.]'

'Das Schloss 2 [motion.flag.pages.]', Acrylics & Paper Collage on Panel,
600 mm x 200mm, 2023

[Reconfigured Translation]

A Brief Primer:

• The world is a sphere.

• You cannot suggest changes.

• Location cannot be saved.

• We can refer to any point on the Earth's surface with two coordinates - longitude and latitude.

• Long/Lat = numbers. They can be specific or vague, as needed.

• I hate numbers - people can't remember long strings of numbers and it's hard to read them out loud.

• Numbers are (mostly) culturally neutral. There are no words for it.

• Any list of words long enough can eventually be recombined into a potentially offensive sentence.

• Words found to be inappropriate are not inappropriate, because they are not intended for contextual writing.

• It concerns the geography: the geography of our planet - as opposed to what is happening this week, this year, this century, and so on.

This is a classic computer science problem. The algorithm used to generate the words is proprietary. You can't see it. You cannot determine your location. Do you want to use more than 10,000 addresses?  - contact them for pricing! (If people want it, fine, but it's not economically sustainable). Open-source products are fine in theory, but capitalist economies can't always run on open source. If you want permission, you'll have to agree to some pretty lengthy terms (and understand their privacy policy). Have one person read it, then have another person listen to it and type it into another system.

I don't know how they intend to bind the successor organisation. There is no way to prevent countries that don't translate between languages, ​​or prefer a different system, from developing a system without asking someone to do the work for free. Should I expect Tesco to give me the goods? They do not publish their word lists or the mappings between them. They take a paternalistic stance when making lists (they know best). Make sure you don't infringe on their patents. I fully accept the arguments about precision and flexibility - they are simply used as words to codify a place.

I've never used longitude/latitude to determine where to meet people. You have to let them analyse the places you are looking for. They don't say what licenses they will use. If they go bankrupt, there's no guarantee they'll be able to release this code legally - and they won't do it in time. I don't care about the exact words - nor do I think anyone should; they are here in a different context. They are not used as words in prose or poetry (too confusing for myriad brains). Here's the thing... If the person's phone has a data connection, the website can only send the geolocation back directly to native speakers.

Addendum:

In another moment of reverse-engineered trans_lation, the painting originally entitled 'The Castle 1 [vouch.speared.hooked]' (below), now becomes: 'Das Schloss 1 [motion.flag.pages]'.

'Das Schloss 1 [vouch.speared.hooked.]', 2022

Completed Painting: 'Tourist View 1'

 

'Tourist View 1', Acrylics & Paper Collage & on Panel, 400 mm x 800 mm, 2023

• Two views across two rivers - separate in space and time.

• Two view_points, in two individual square metres - located on two different screens. 

• Two re_invented territories. 

• Two visitor destinations [re_viewed].

[Translation]:

Beautiful day and night. Make sure you get there early and get your vstupenky (also available from Get Your Guide for the same price as the castle) and you will be in St. Wein by 9am. A beautiful cathedral and worth a stroll from the outside, the interior and exterior is quite remarkable. The other areas are nice too and add context to the countries and their various functions. Take the tram to the north entrance, this explains the many stairs and the uphill. There are a number of pay toilets and a small poorly advertised shop. ATTENTION: you often have to take tram 22 to get there. This tram caters to English speaking visitors who have paid for tram tickets but don't read the fine print on the back which requires confirmation to avoid fines (but the istegstadia isn't shown in yellow boxes on the walls of the tram). If you're lucky, the subway cops will take advantage of novice status and fine you about $80 per person in your group, show you the credit card machine, and threaten to ru the Policii Pass if you propose umírá. It looks a bit like targeting, profiling or snooping. If we were law breakers we would NOT have a ticket marked with the interval it IS valid for, date and timed instead of a PAID Vstupenky. It was a quick reminder of a visit to the castle and certainly contributed to the fact that no more money was spent on jewelry that day. The government appears to need more cash than the local economy struggling to recover from Covid. Shame on the subway police, and intimidation and little empowerment is a step too far. A great castle and cathedral, a bit corrupted by government greed.

[Translation]:

Excellent location, it's in a refurbished part of town opposite a fabulous John Lewis store. The rooms are also excellent, large TV, good air conditioning, comfortable beds, safe, drinks cooler and the usual little things you would expect, no noise from other rooms the night we stayed, cleanliness cannot be faulted, the two smaller sinks is a special design, the kettle doesn't fill, the battery is so low by the sink, the kettle is level, you have to fill it with mugs, and there is a tall cylindrical light in the main room, next to it is a window with a hidden LED bulb, really bright light, much better than the normal dim light in the room you usually have in hotels, but the only way to turn it off is to kneel down and connect the floor to the horizontal socket between the beds. The shelf and the lamp itself have never had a light without a switch in hotel seen. Not clear if there is another way to turn it off as I explained.

My only complaint is that this hotel reception is small and only a few metres from the front door, which means that if there is a very small queen and the receptionist (male) spoke in a whisper and had to ask him about any guests I can pick up, he repeated that the other (male) younger man at the front desk looked like he just got a new one, his house was taken away, there was no good reception from this new body, otherwise everything was fine.

Completed Painting: 'The Castle/Le Grand Hotel 2'

'The Castle/Le Grand Hotel 2', Acrylics on Panel, 600 mm x 600 mm, 2022

"I was amazed that the world contained people sufficiently different from myself for the manager of the hotel to have urged such a stroll upon me as a form of amusement, for there to be some to whom such a torture-chamber of unfamiliar quarters could actually be an ‘abode of delight’, as the hotel styled itself in its leaflet, possibly with some degree of license, although it was undeniably addressing a wide public whose views it shared. So, to attract such people to the Grand-Hotel of Balbec, it expatiated not only on ‘the exquisite cuisine’ and the ‘entrancing view from the gardens of the Casino’ but on ‘the great god Fashion, whose decrees no man of good breeding will care to flout, unless he does not mind being thought a Philistine.’” [1.]

“These impressions, mingling with the ones I would be experiencing in that other place, on that similar road, and surrounded by all the accessory feelings which were common to both states, and only by them – the sensation of breathing freely, curiosity, the enjoyment of being lazy, a good appetite, cheerfulness – would grow in volume, take on the consistency of a particular type of pleasure, almost a way of existence, one which I seldom had occasion to revisit but within which reawakened memories blended a physically perceived reality with enough remembered, fancied, ungraspable reality for these places I was passing through to give me, not just an aesthetic experience, but a heady desire, however fleeting, to live there for ever.” [2.]

Addendum:

My current working practices do not (by intention) follow a wholly linear or pre-determined path. a 'series' of works may come into being through processes of translation or mediation, with relatively little pre-intention. Progress may be slow and meandering, as opposed to methodically pursuing a set agenda. Just as the past may inform the present/future - so, equally, may a reversal of the temporal/mental flow apply. New readings may bring-about revisions. Lines may take flight backwards in order to move forwards (the lateral jump and parallel strand are also of prime importance). The painting previously entitled 'The Castle 1', is now renamed; 'The Castle/Le Grand Hotel 1'. Ultimately, the fixity of appellations should be of less relevance than the rhizomatic processes that bring them about.

'The Castle/Le Grand Hotel 1', Paper Collage & Acrylics on Panel,
600mm x 600 mm, 2022

[1.] & [2.]: Marcel Proust, ‘In Search of Lost Time’, ‘Volume 2, In The Shadow of Young Girls in Flower’ (Trans. James Grieve), London, Penguin Books, 1919/2002