Monthly Archives: December 2011

trash can

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name: sarai
age: 24
profession: graphic designer
location: amsterdam
weekday: sunday
reference: sunday night in front of the tv reorganizing the desktop of my computer. rename finished projects with a clear title for finding it back easier. cleaning ‘never using’ files by using the trash can. ‘empty trash can’ rethink did i loose an important software or something?

the inbetweens

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name: margarita
age: 27
profession: ……….
location: amsterdam
weekday: tuesday
reference: everything before and after this breakfast table is domestic work. gathering, preparing, setting… then, gathering, cleaning, putting away. it is always bookended by these tasks, so you draw out the inbetween for as long as you can. (photograph of my grandfather and our daily breakfast ritual)

synecdoche vs metonymy

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name: margarita
age: 27
profession: organizer of things
weekday: thursday
reference: when i was studying grammar, the example they would always use to explain what ‘synecdoche’ meant was the “all hands on deck” saying… where the hands stand in for the ‘man’ or the ‘sailor’. where the person, as a worker, is minimized down to their hands. to the utility of their body. to the utility of a part of their body.  class is mapped onto our hands.

boating for beginners

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name: margarita
age: 27
profession: untitled
location: amsterdam
weekday: sunday
reference: this is my father rowing around a group of children, somewhere at a dacha near minsk (belarus). when i showed him this picture he said that this was one of the things he liked about living in a communist (socialist?) country… that when the weekend came you had complete freedom from work…you weren’t thinking about it seven days a week, there were moments to just let go.

lost glove, early autumn

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name: João
age: 29
profession: Designer
location: oslo
weekday: wednesday
reference: Last winter I saw so many lost gloves I decided to take a picture whenever I find one. I had this idea right when winter was over. this is a typical summer / early autumn glove – it is for work, rather than avoiding the cold. As cold comes, the woolen ones start to appear in the city streets, lost in public transportation, bus stops or swollen in the snow. when the sun comes, they rise above the surface.