“I thought how, with the peeling wave as an ideal of perfection, the surfer’s object of passion becomes the very essence of ephemerality-not a thing to be owned or a goal to be attained but rather a fleeting state to inhabit. So much more of my time, after all, passed in the dreaming and searching than in the actual riding of waves; so much more time spent driving the coast and floating between sets. Of a whole year of devotion, probably no more than a day was spent truly on my feet and surfing, so I couldn’t view such a moment as this without an ardent, frustrated desire, a near-religious craving for wholeness. Unlike so many other passions: while on might, I suppose, wish for a bloom to remain in blossom, for a ripening grape to hang always on the vine-yearnings John Keats made his own, for fleeting beauty and youth, the understandably hopeless hope that we might freeze our world’s better moments-the wave’s plenitude is rather in the peeling of the petal, the very motion of the falling fruit.” Page 99

Web browsing. Next look at editing into a canon form, with voiceover or subtitles

First sound experiment, beginning of the poem ‘White Shroud’ by Allen Ginsberg spoken by me and edited with audacity. Needs a lot of development.

Repetition, layering, canon or similar structure. Build up with a similar overwhelmingness of the internet.

Portfolio of Côme de Bouchony, Paris-based independent designer and art director.

Performance, internet, voice over, waiting

DIAL-UP WAVES

Repetitive music and video that although has nice images is really dull. The addition of subtitles telling a narrative well is perfect though, maybe I can look at this for my piece to add a sense of story or progress.

I don't know whether this will have any relevance to my work as I've moved on too quickly, but as part of development I didn't want it to just sit in a folder.

Water one is something I've thought about already, it looks interesting

Like music in canon it transforms as it builds (morph and disintegrate), allowing a repetitive piece to be more of a narrative.

Use of speech and edited sound with a repetitive video. Adds more of a narrative to a simple piece

Artist as a filter - it’s like having a highlighter pen - enjoying keeping your eyes open-your wits about you

Mostly idea of waiting, and not understanding what the work is. Waiting.