original uploaded by miwa's noteMiwa is my new discovered moly journal artist in this month. Different from many other moly journals, in her works, she partitions off her dairy in four parts and each part as a scene portraied by graphic illustration and text. Like the above dairy, October 5th, she simply documented four things:
--watched a jp movie under patience
--ate instant rice meal
--sleep
--romantic idea about going to india
The common thoughts are presented like a 4-koma which makes the
ordinary routine has the degree of narrative. On the aspect of graphic interpretation, she draw the layout of Indian elements according to her momentary mind-travel to India. Besides, when putting her handmade journal onto flickr, she added notes of link sources to support her text about some understandings of japanese cultures.
The function of flickr has so many aspect that waiting for user to explore:)
Once again I was intrigued to this image since the joy to read life in another culture, such as the japanese instant rice that "can get it in the nearest convenience store". But also I am reminded to connect trivia to art. I can definitely recall four interesting things happened in Octo 5th by looking at my agenda, calendar, blog, facebook status, course syllable etc, but I have never intended to magnify them.
1 comment:
"Magnify them" Is that what this artist is doing - magnifying them? How - by drawing, heightening, isolating? translating them into images? Does the act of recording elevate the trivial? Or does representing it render it something else?
Your exploration of the moly journal has decidely engaged you. And I appreciate your investigation into this mode - of diary, of community, of e-sharing and e-elaboration, and of the possibilities of the archive, of the recombination.
Would be interested in your pausing in your appreciation, or in your elaborating your appreciation to talk about the form more - as you do here with 4-koma. What does the degree of narrative added do? (Does it elevate it form the trivial?) How do they compare with the media you use -- blog, facebook, calendar. Are they not a different degree of narrative? In what manner could you elevate, magnify the details therein, how could you platform them differently so that the trivial shines like art?
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