monday, february 12, 2007
Apples and memory and classes
More about W.G. Sebald and “how seven British artists have responded to his work and the landscapes that inspired him”:
It was a recurrent theme in Sebald’s conversation, not just his writing, that remembering is a completely random process generated by echoes, affinities and connections.
One of these artists delves into the life of Sebald’s friend who was obsessed with apples, making a film that “uses a fractured structure that emphasises something lost or obscured”, and there are other artists with photographs of ruins, taxidermied birds, recorded nature scenes. This is all very appealing, and it reminds me that I have an unopened copy of The Emigrants at my mom’s house, bought optimistically in a book store in San Francisco along with novels by Italo Calvino and Marguerite Duras that I never read either.
But the apples. The apples are important. I read The Rings of Saturn for a class, and our assignment was to go on a walk and write something Sebaldian, and I wrote about my obsession with apples and other kinds of fruit. People liked it, and you can read it now.
comments (2)
GALLIUM M. SMACK!
– Phil on 2/14/2007 10:49:26
Hi, I ended up looking at your site because I was searching apples, to see how other people use them and the connotations people have about them because I am using an apple in a project I am doing for my sculpture class. I decided that I needed to contact you because of the following reasons (and this was were I found how to do it I couldn't find an email)
1- you think about apples
2- you have taken an evolutionary biology class, similar to what I am taking now Humans, Death, and Disease, which is particularly interesting to me because I just graduated with my RN
3- you like to take random pictures
4- you have a picture of lucky bamboo, and I have lucky bamboo too (well my computer science boyfriend does)
5- you have a computer science boyfriend
6- you site is called jeweled platypus, and not many people are into platypus'. Did you know they have venom in their heel spur that is very toxic?
7- you read things I have read, and have not read and maybe should (RA Salvatore and Garth Nix are some of my favorite authors right now)
8- I found appliqué lady bugs on your site and lady bugs are my favorite. (Well them and sea horses) I have quite a collection of lady bug stuff.
9- I can tell you think about the world around you and try to make sense of it
10- you seem interesting
I don't have a web site but if you want to email me at JHB4984@hotmail.com that would be cool. I promise I am not a stalker, but a 22 year old female who thought that the similarities of things that I like or think about are on your site to much not to contact you.
You seem interesting.
– Janell on 2/19/2007 13:01:22
comments are off. for new comments, my email address is brittag@gmail.com.
