Brooklyn Art Library
Group Exhibition
The Meal: Documenting a Global Snack 2012
Digital prints, matte finish
4 x 6 inches
Artist Statement
This photograph was taken on February 24th 2012 at 12pm EST amongst thousands of people around the world who have opted to join in a simultaneous global meal. Whether it’s breakfast in LA or a midnight snack in Beijing, participants had taken out a moment from their hectic lives to share it with strangers around the world. Here, I have captured a photo of myself with my meal at my home in Bangkok. The photograph was exhibited with other self-portraits contributed from around the world, documenting the world’s largest communal snack.
About the Exhibition
One moment. One meal. One photograph. Let's eat.
The Meal aims to inspire a feeling of community across geographic and cultural boundaries while addressing the statement that “you are what you eat.” However, for nearly a billion people around the world, hunger is a constant daily reality and "what you eat" is never enough. This project, an initiative of the Art House Co-op in Brooklyn, New York, addresses the chronic problem of global hunger and the organizations that struggle against this persistent crisis. The team had asked thousands of people around the world to participate in a simultaneous meal with strangers, which took place on 24th Feb 2012 at 12pm EST. The Meal exhibition encourages participants to support Action Against Hunger, one of the world’s most effective nonprofit organizations.
Artist Statement
This photograph was taken on February 24th 2012 at 12pm EST amongst thousands of people around the world who have opted to join in a simultaneous global meal. Whether it’s breakfast in LA or a midnight snack in Beijing, participants had taken out a moment from their hectic lives to share it with strangers around the world. Here, I have captured a photo of myself with my meal at my home in Bangkok. The photograph was exhibited with other self-portraits contributed from around the world, documenting the world’s largest communal snack.
About the Exhibition
One moment. One meal. One photograph. Let's eat.
The Meal aims to inspire a feeling of community across geographic and cultural boundaries while addressing the statement that “you are what you eat.” However, for nearly a billion people around the world, hunger is a constant daily reality and "what you eat" is never enough. This project, an initiative of the Art House Co-op in Brooklyn, New York, addresses the chronic problem of global hunger and the organizations that struggle against this persistent crisis. The team had asked thousands of people around the world to participate in a simultaneous meal with strangers, which took place on 24th Feb 2012 at 12pm EST. The Meal exhibition encourages participants to support Action Against Hunger, one of the world’s most effective nonprofit organizations.
Artist Statement
This photograph was taken on February 24th 2012 at 12pm EST amongst thousands of people around the world who have opted to join in a simultaneous global meal. Whether it’s breakfast in LA or a midnight snack in Beijing, participants had taken out a moment from their hectic lives to share it with strangers around the world. Here, I have captured a photo of myself with my meal at my home in Bangkok. The photograph was exhibited with other self-portraits contributed from around the world, documenting the world’s largest communal snack.
Letters to Home, 2012
Mixed media: coloured pencils, coloured paper, pen 7 x 5 in
Art House Co-op project
Brooklyn Art Library, New York
Artist Statement
My interpretation of the project resulted in a poignant letter addressed to my home of twenty-three years in Bangkok, Thailand.
About the Exhibition
What would you say to your childhood home?
It's been a while, and the house you grew up in is starting to wonder about you. If your childhood home could hear you, what would you say? It might have been an apartment in the big city, a farmhouse in the country, or a cabin in the woods — there's a place from your past that will always stay with you forever.
Letters to Home is a community art project and an exhibition created by hundreds of strangers from around the world. Each participant contributed a single letter addressed to a childhood home, reanimating these structures from the past and filling them in on their present lives. The exhibition aimed to transform the Brooklyn Art Library in New York by covering the walls in handwritten memories — each page addressed to a different home. After the exhibition opening at the Brooklyn Art Library, every letter contributed to the project was compiled in a boxed Anthology of Letters to Home and was exhibited across the globe as part of the 2012 Sketchbook Project World Tour.
Artist Statement
My interpretation of the project resulted in a poignant letter addressed to my home of twenty-three years in Bangkok, Thailand.
About the Exhibition
What would you say to your childhood home?
It's been a while, and the house you grew up in is starting to wonder about you. If your childhood home could hear you, what would you say? It might have been an apartment in the big city, a farmhouse in the country, or a cabin in the woods — there's a place from your past that will always stay with you forever.
Letters to Home is a community art project and an exhibition created by hundreds of strangers from around the world. Each participant contributed a single letter addressed to a childhood home, reanimating these structures from the past and filling them in on their present lives. The exhibition aimed to transform the Brooklyn Art Library in New York by covering the walls in handwritten memories — each page addressed to a different home. After the exhibition opening at the Brooklyn Art Library, every letter contributed to the project was compiled in a boxed Anthology of Letters to Home and was exhibited across the globe as part of the 2012 Sketchbook Project World Tour.
Artist Statement
My interpretation of the project resulted in a poignant letter addressed to my home of twenty-three years in Bangkok, Thailand.
Still Waters in Wilsons Promontory, 2012
Digital photograph 4 x 6 in
Brooklyn Art Library, New York
Artist Statement
Still Waters in Wilson’s Promontory (2012) is a photograph taken in response to the chosen source image (below). The similarity in subject matter, depiction of lines wavering across the waters, and the colour palette creates an aesthetic and dialogic relation between the two photographs.
Selected source image
Image supplied by Art House Co-op, Brooklyn for the Photo Response Project
About the Exhibition
What's a picture worth? 1000 words? A quick sketch? Or a photo in return? The Photo Response Project asks artists to perform a two-dimensional visual translation by responding to one of five original photographs that were provided, in any visual medium of a size no larger than 4" x 6". Artists were encouraged to work with one of five photographs by using a similar palette or subject or by allowing the photograph to inspire something new – a short story, a drawing, painting or manipulation of the image itself. The responses are exhibited alongside the source image to illustrate the many translations and directions that can arise from a shared origin.
Other photographs supplied by the Art House Co-op for the Photo Response Project
Artist Statement
Still Waters in Wilson’s Promontory (2012) is a photograph taken in response to the chosen source image (below). The similarity in subject matter, depiction of lines wavering across the waters, and the colour palette creates an aesthetic and dialogic relation between the two photographs.
Selected source image
Image supplied by Art House Co-op, Brooklyn for the Photo Response Project
About the Exhibition
What's a picture worth? 1000 words? A quick sketch? Or a photo in return? The Photo Response Project asks artists to perform a two-dimensional visual translation by responding to one of five original photographs that were provided, in any visual medium of a size no larger than 4" x 6". Artists were encouraged to work with one of five photographs by using a similar palette or subject or by allowing the photograph to inspire something new – a short story, a drawing, painting or manipulation of the image itself. The responses are exhibited alongside the source image to illustrate the many translations and directions that can arise from a shared origin.
Other photographs supplied by the Art House Co-op for the Photo Response Project
Artist Statement
Still Waters in Wilson’s Promontory (2012) is a photograph taken in response to the chosen source image (below). The similarity in subject matter, depiction of lines wavering across the waters, and the colour palette creates an aesthetic and dialogic relation between the two photographs.
Selected source image
Image supplied by Art House Co-op, Brooklyn for the Photo Response Project