Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Another Sansoni photographer... better pictures too!

My cousin Olivia was a big time studio photographer in France. With a background of working with 5" x 4" cameras, shooting onto film. She has now changed to a small Leica (someone stole all her Nikon's - thank you whoever you are) and takes great pictures. Check out her portfolio on www.thebigpicturelibrary.com/oliviabonnalsansoni

Monday, April 09, 2007

For Deshan and Beat courtesy of Thomas

(Go with the flow... ehem. Anything goes etc. I had a look at the link below. While your photo is fabulous for this saying, the text on Zen is rather off the track. Who wrote it? Since "anything goes", we leave it at that. However, the citation put into Beat's mouth actually came about through a lengthy e-mail conversation between him and me. He was going on about having the "Oasis" exhibit here and there all over the place, and running his other exhibit and book project "Ice and Water" at the same time, etc. I was defending the rationalist method of "unity of theme and place" upheld in event circles (it was originally applied in theatre), until I got fed up and said "anything goes". That actually is a far reaching philosophical utterance, not by myself, but by my philosophy professor, Paul Feyerabend, an American who taught in Zurich in the 80ies. (e.g. http://www.galilean-library.org/feyerabend.html). We went on about it until Beat finally came up with "anything goes, as long as it flows". That would now constitute the method by which we develop and design Oasis as an ongoing project and event tour... Quite an expansion on Feyerabend. So I say: Feierabend with Feyerabend! The German word "Feierabend" litterally means: "an evening to celebrate", after a hard day's work.)

Maldives. Dhonveli Resort. A John Keells property.