Book With 144 Drawings
Kontrans 701
Cover Photo by Geert Vandepoele
Production Assistance Melle Hammer
The title 144 Conjectures originates from three different meanings of the word conjecture.
First of all, the direct etymological sense of the word: throwing different things together: conjecture derived via Middle English and Middle French from the Latin verb conicere (to throw together), a combination of con-‘ (together) and ‘jacere’ (to throw).
For me, this refers to the combining of different elements in these drawings: computer-generated geometrical structures, backgrounds made by processing coloured images to greyscale (only in part of the work), and adding forms and colour by hand as a last stage.
Secondly, in mathematics, a conjecture is a conclusion or a proposition which is suspected to be true, but for which no proof or disproof has yet been found. In my drawings, the various scribbles that there are in each one can be seen as attempts to formulate conjectures in an asemic manner.
Then a conjecture can also be a critical reconstruction of the original reading of a corrupt, contaminated, nonsensical or illegible textual fragment. Sitting in front of a (mostly) greyscale template with drawing materials at hand, I often felt like trying to uncover the hidden significance of the structure, and went to work by adding to it and giving it a meaning that made sense to me - thereby turning them into palimpsests.
Both for the creation of the geometrical structures and for making the backgrounds, I wrote many small programs.
The structures are based either on number sequences, of which I have a large archive, or generated with nonlinear equations.
The backgrounds are made either from photos I took on my walks or from scans of collages I made.
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Jaap Blonk, Mats Gustafsson, Michael Zerang
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Hugo Ball's Six Sound Poems, 1916 –
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OZO BONN –
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Garbage Collection
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Somnambulisms: Small Hardcover Book of Drawings
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Possible Gardens
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111 Recipes
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Best Wedding
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Steamology –
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Elisabeth Harnik & Didi Kern, with special guest Jaap Blonk
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Six Sound Poems by Hugo Ball –
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Consensus –
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Jaap Blonk's Splinks
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New Start –
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Jaap Blonk's Retirement Overdue
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Readings - Gileya Revisited –
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Simon Nabatov
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