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<font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Hello
everyone,</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">First
I want to thank Renate and Patrick to include me in the discussion, I
am amazed going through the archive slowly.</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Most
of my practice has been illustration, design, collaborative new media
and intercultural art and research, and recently I am doing more
practice on digital art and interdisciplinary art projects.</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Regarding
the theme flow, That I enjoyed reading brilliant ideas here, I am
going to talk about a project I am currently working on.</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">It
is an abstract diary project, called “cartography of moment”,
moment-graphy, and another name “notes in music” that Roz Dimon
suggested.</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">I
am recording a piece of time of every day into a hypothetical
coding/symbolic language.</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The
idea is to capture a short time (about an hour) and archive it in a
visual form, as an abstract story book of a daily life to be
delivered to a later time.</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The
discipline of the project is that, I focus on a subject, a passing
feeling, something that inspires me at the moment and engages me,
either emotionally, physically or mentally, and while I'm totally
focused on it, I draw on a page of the plaid notebook and fill its
squares with different symbols, colors, and codes that come to my
mind as I feel the presence time.</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">I
let my unconscious take part in the process and try not to
intellectually engage with the choices I make. Either aesthetically,
or for the composition and color palette.</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">I
try not to plan or think ahead and, I just let it happen at the
moment, as it comes naturally as a visual translation of how I feel
about the whole idea of presence in the moment. Let it to be a direct
note from the moment I experience.</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Now
that I have done more than 100 pages in the past 6 months, I can
observe a pattern in my visual memos. I can see how my mind tends to
choose codes of the moment; forms and colors to express herself, and
how my hand tends to draw in similar space.</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">It's
interesting how all these similar patterns and limited colors and
shapes could be so unique in their own way; and how different the
concept could be as a whole, compared to the details. How they relate
and influence each other and could change the meaning of each other.</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">I
want to know if it is possible to capture the time we experience,
those moments that we are aware of our existence; I want to know if
we could take our feelings' selfies, and if we could be able to read
them later too, directly, from subconscious, and if all the process
could make us be more aware of our passing time. Like a selfie diary.</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">I
was actually always obsessed with selfie photos and believed they are
one of the best time-capture memos materials, if taken honestly;
because I believe nothing can reflect our being better than our
facial expression and condition; and nothing could tell more about us
than a face; the eyes, the look in them, how much the person cares
about himself, and when it is our own face, what we remember of that
specific time and space that has been captured in that frame, and how
much we remember of what we were going through at the time,
emotionally, even when we don't remember the story.</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Moreover,
A selfie represents only a glance in a second of someone's life, but
it can represent a period of time in the concept of a face itself.
And all the selfies through time together, would make another bigger
collection that can picture a more inclusive concept of that life and
make a meaningful story.</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">So,
every moment could be a detail, representing a pixel, that helps to
shape the bigger picture. It can be dark or light, but doesn't
matter as long as it has a meaningful place and role in the whole
concept.</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Now
that's a question: When we talk about the flow, are we actually
talking about those details, those individual pixels, frozen in a
second, or we are talking about the quality of the passing details,
shaping a whole concept as time experience, like the water passing in
a river? Are we talking about the river or the water?</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Another
question is that, what if we could take a selfie of every moment?
Could we communicate its quality with others? How much we could
understand those abstract language of others' subconscious, talking
about their time experiences, that is the only thing we ever know as
living.</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">And
isn't it all about art, anyway? That connection, that struggle to
understand another being, in a coded language that only our mind
would understand with an immediate abstract knowledge and we struggle
to define with human languages?</span></font></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0.08in"><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">On
the other hand, as Heraclitus theory, says “We look and do not look
at the same river; We are, and we are not.” It might be a
philosophical theory, but even scientifically, we know that every
moment we live, our body and mind are slightly different than before,
Every moment, our body organs are a moment older, our cells are in
another phase of their lives, each atom is in a slightly different
place, moving around, in a different pattern, that is so tiny that
only could be observed in digital microscopes, but it is happening.
So actually every moment we are in a slightly different quality of
our existence.</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">In
the end, this project started with me trying to make a personal
visual code language for music pieces and compare them together; Also
a project Patrick Lichty was doing with daily Asemic calligraphy to
collect the unconscious mind's patterns, inspired me to think of
capturing the life moments, the experienced time and feelings.</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">So,
metaphorically, if every moment of life is a music note, we are the
composer of every day music. We are the only ones who could hear our
own music too. If we consider every thought we have during the day,
as a code and symbol we actually add to our existence time, we would
realize how important it is what we think of, or feel for in a daily
basis; what we see or listen or experience. </span></font></font></font>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">So,
this project also led me to an Art therapy idea, that capturing time
as a passing quality -that we usually hardly notice in the speed of
everyday life- would help people to notice all those pixels that the
big picture is being made of; all those notes that make the music,
and maybe lead them to realize that, for making a better picture, and
a more beautiful music, we need to take care of those little details
we spend our moments on. </span></font></font></font>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">I
hope my writing does not differ so much from academic discipline, and
if it is, I apologize;</span></font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.08in"><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">I
am more of an artist with ideas and thoughts and I am still learning
academic English, the language I've started in my adult life.</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">I
am really looking forward to hearing your thoughts, critiques,
suggestions, and comments on my project, if anyone has done anything
similar to it, if anyone is involved in art therapy or visual music I
would love to share ideas.</span></font></font></font></p></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#f3f3f3" face="monospace"><span style="background-color:rgb(116,27,71)"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#f3f3f3" face="monospace" style="background-color:rgb(162,196,201)"><br></font></div><div><font color="#f3f3f3" face="monospace" style="background-color:rgb(162,196,201)"><br></font></div><div><font color="#f3f3f3" face="monospace" style="background-color:rgb(162,196,201)">Negin Ehtesabian</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="monospace"><a href="mailto:neginete1@gmail.com" style="background-color:rgb(162,196,201)" target="_blank">neginete1@gmail.com</a></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="monospace"><a href="mailto:negin.ehtesabian@gmail.com" style="background-color:rgb(162,196,201)" target="_blank">negin.ehtesabian@gmail.com</a></font></div><div><font face="monospace" color="#f3f3f3"><a href="http://neginete.com" style="background-color:rgb(162,196,201)" target="_blank">neginete.com</a></font></div><div><font color="#d5a6bd" face="monospace"><br></font></div><div><font color="#d5a6bd" face="monospace">Instagram pages:</font></div><div><font size="1"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/neginete.art/" target="_blank">Art</a><font color="#d5a6bd" face="monospace"><br></font></font></div><div><font color="#d5a6bd" face="arial, sans-serif" size="1"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/neginete.illustration/" target="_blank">illustration</a></font></div><div><a href="https://www.instagram.com/neginete.design/" target="_blank"><font size="1">design</font></a></div><div><u><a href="https://www.instagram.com/neginete.art/" target="_blank"><font size="1">Personal</font></a></u></div><div><a href="https://www.instagram.com/sangartprojects/" target="_blank"><font size="1">SaNg Art projects</font></a></div><div><a href="https://www.instagram.com/nptprojects/" target="_blank"><font size="1">NPT projects</font></a></div><div><font size="1"><br></font></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>