http://www.monikabravo.com monika bravo Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:13:23 +0000 http://www.monikabravo.com en http://www.monikabravo.com/LANDSCAPE-OF-BELIEF http://www.monikabravo.com/following/monikabravo.com/LANDSCAPE-OF-BELIEF Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:13:23 +0000 monika bravo 2803139 LANDSCAPE OF BELIEF 2012 Interactive time-based installation "Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny." — Mahatma Gandhi Landscape of belief is an interactive time base installation that calls into question how we construct our lives according to our belief systems. An experience employing literary texts that float transparently around as the viewers become active participants and shift the landscape in it. These texts that generate skylines of real/imaginary landscapes are culled from Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, (both a dialogue and description of illusory cities between Marco Polo and Kublai Khan). By carefully overlapping surfaces, texts and cartographies, a non material space of emptiness is achieved throughout the room, displaying nothingness as an object thus allowing for the space of the metaphysical to enclose the viewer. I first came upon the idea for the piece after I encountered the title for the exhibition Textural landscapes, I envisioned a space covered with layers of dynamic landscape, it’s motion would be akin to a magnet, as thoughts become actions these define destinies as gandhi notes above; I thought of text as the potentiality of form; as the space in between, the vehicle of infinite probabilities, not so much as direct meaning, but as abstraction and embodiment of the possibilities of the mind. My intention is to create a parallel between literature and architecture, as they both define, translate and shape physical and mind structures. As the viewers are immersed in the projections, they are given the opportunity to experience the prospect of becoming aware of the power of their belief systems and how they define the landscape of their lives. I am also interested in the empty space in between the words, it’s potential as the things that are to come. "This -- some say -- confirms the hypothesis that each man bears in is mind a city made only of differences, a city without figures and without form, and the individual cities fill it up." I. Calvino http://www.monikabravo.com/ON-THE-VERGE-OF http://www.monikabravo.com/following/monikabravo.com/ON-THE-VERGE-OF Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:04:18 +0000 monika bravo 2801139 ON THE VERGE OF.... time-based installation with sound 2009 Duration: 60 seconds Dimensions: each 48 x 72 inches Sound: Mike Hallenbeck <img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2801139/01.ONTHEVERGE_plane_640.jpg" width="640" height="359" width_o="889" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2801139/01.ONTHEVERGE_plane_o.jpg" data-mid="14274475" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2801139/01.ONTHEVERGE_grass_640.jpg" width="640" height="359" width_o="889" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2801139/01.ONTHEVERGE_grass_o.jpg" data-mid="14274478" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2801139/01.ONTHEVERGE_doc01_640.jpg" width="640" height="359" width_o="889" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2801139/01.ONTHEVERGE_doc01_o.jpg" data-mid="14274480" border="0" align="left"/> ON THE VERGE OF.... Multiple Channel Video with sound 2009 Duration: 60 seconds Dimensions: each 48 x 72 inches Sound: Mike Hallenbeck Digital Rendering ON THE VERGE . . . examines the feeling of Uncertainty, the quality of not knowing what is about to happen nor taking place already. It suggests change as the only constant. http://www.monikabravo.com/AMPLIFIED-DREAM http://www.monikabravo.com/following/monikabravo.com/AMPLIFIED-DREAM Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:16:41 +0000 monika bravo 2808234 <img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2808234/AMPLIFIED DREAM.001.jpg" width="670" height="418" width_o="800" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2808234/AMPLIFIED DREAM.001_o.jpg" data-mid="14267008" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2808234/AMPLIFIED DREAM.002.jpg" width="670" height="418" width_o="800" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2808234/AMPLIFIED DREAM.002_o.jpg" data-mid="14267015" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2808234/AMPLIFIED DREAM.003.jpg" width="670" height="418" width_o="800" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2808234/AMPLIFIED DREAM.003_o.jpg" data-mid="14267019" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2808234/AMPLIFIED DREAM.004.jpg" width="670" height="418" width_o="800" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2808234/AMPLIFIED DREAM.004_o.jpg" data-mid="14267032" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2808234/AMPLIFIED DREAM.005.jpg" width="670" height="418" width_o="800" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2808234/AMPLIFIED DREAM.005_o.jpg" data-mid="14267037" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2808234/AMPLIFIED DREAM.006.jpg" width="670" height="418" width_o="800" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2808234/AMPLIFIED DREAM.006_o.jpg" data-mid="14267042" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2808234/AMPLIFIED DREAM.007.jpg" width="670" height="418" width_o="800" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2808234/AMPLIFIED DREAM.007_o.jpg" data-mid="14267048" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2808234/AMPLIFIED DREAM.008.jpg" width="670" height="418" width_o="800" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2808234/AMPLIFIED DREAM.008_o.jpg" data-mid="14267054" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2808234/AMPLIFIED DREAM.009.jpg" width="670" height="418" width_o="800" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2808234/AMPLIFIED DREAM.009_o.jpg" data-mid="14267061" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2808234/AMPLIFIED DREAM.010.jpg" width="670" height="418" width_o="800" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2808234/AMPLIFIED DREAM.010_o.jpg" data-mid="14267069" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2808234/AMPLIFIED DREAM.011.jpg" width="670" height="418" width_o="800" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2808234/AMPLIFIED DREAM.011_o.jpg" data-mid="14267073" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2808234/AMPLIFIED DREAM.012.jpg" width="670" height="418" width_o="800" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2808234/AMPLIFIED DREAM.012_o.jpg" data-mid="14267081" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2808234/AMPLIFIED DREAM.013.jpg" width="670" height="418" width_o="800" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2808234/AMPLIFIED DREAM.013_o.jpg" data-mid="14267084" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2808234/AMPLIFIED DREAM.014.jpg" width="670" height="418" width_o="800" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2808234/AMPLIFIED DREAM.014_o.jpg" data-mid="14267088" border="0" align="left"/> AMPLIFIED DREAM Photographic_installation 2011 48 x 96" Archival Pigment print, Acrylic, Dibond, aluminum brace. These images are painterly abstractions of a city that without urban planning can grows vertically and horizontally like a good or bad dream. http://www.monikabravo.com/IN-SITU_-TLM http://www.monikabravo.com/following/monikabravo.com/IN-SITU_-TLM Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:40:26 +0000 monika bravo 2802719 <img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802719/_1110553.jpg" width="600" height="260" width_o="600" height_o="260" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802719/_1110553_o.jpg" data-mid="15861199" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802719/_1110550.jpg" width="600" height="393" width_o="600" height_o="393" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802719/_1110550_o.jpg" data-mid="15861328" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802719/_1110611.jpg" width="600" height="250" width_o="600" height_o="250" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802719/_1110611_o.jpg" data-mid="15861734" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802719/_1110586.jpg" width="600" height="266" width_o="600" height_o="266" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802719/_1110586_o.jpg" data-mid="15861916" border="0" align="left"/>{image 1 }{image 2 }<img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802719/talisman_18 copy.jpg" width="670" height="447" width_o="1000" height_o="668" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802719/talisman_18 copy_o.jpg" data-mid="14231669" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802719/talisman_21 copy.jpg" width="670" height="456" width_o="1000" height_o="681" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802719/talisman_21 copy_o.jpg" data-mid="14231678" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802719/talisman_22a copy.jpg" width="670" height="444" width_o="1000" height_o="664" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802719/talisman_22a copy_o.jpg" data-mid="14231688" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802719/talisman_28 copy.jpg" width="670" height="450" width_o="1000" height_o="672" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802719/talisman_28 copy_o.jpg" data-mid="14231695" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802719/talisman_29 copy.jpg" width="670" height="455" width_o="1000" height_o="680" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802719/talisman_29 copy_o.jpg" data-mid="14231711" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802719/talisman_31 copy.jpg" width="670" height="450" width_o="1000" height_o="672" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802719/talisman_31 copy_o.jpg" data-mid="14231725" border="0" align="left"/> IN-SITU_[TLM], Commission 2012 Photographic-installation Dimensions variable from 40h x 150w x 3d inches to 12h x 108w x 3d inches. pigment  on acrylic and glass, custom aluminum ledge In-Situ is a large photographic commission for Talisman Colombia Oil & Gas' main office in Bogota, Colombia. Which main activities include the exploration, development, production, transportation and marketing of crude oil, natural gas and liquids. The Imagery has been culled from topographic data and from material provided by the Company, these were reworked and super imposed with maps, and other seismic data (detailed models of the underlying geological structure used in the exploration of hydrocarbons) rendering an abstraction between the landscape and the data. The commission consists of a numerous set (6) of polyptychs ranging in sizes between 40h x 150 x 3 inches to 12 x 108 x 3 inches.  IN-SITU_[TLM], Commission 2012 Instalación fotográfica Dimensiones variables (desde 40x150x3 pulgadas, hasta 12x108x3 pulgadas) pigmento sobre acrílico y vidrio, aluminio. In-Situ es una instalación fotográfica de grandes dimensiones comisionada para las oficinas principales de Talisman Colombia Oil & Gas en Bogotá, Colombia, cuyas principales actividades incluyen la exploración, desarrollo, producción, transporte y marketing de crudo, gas natural y líquidos. Las imágenes han sido recopiladas de informacion topografica y de materiales proporcionados por la compañía, los cuales han sido transformados y manipulados junto con mapas e información sismológica (modelos detallados de la estructura geológica subterránea utilizada en la explotación de hidrocarburos) generando una abstracción entre el paisaje y los datos técnicos. La instalación esta constituida por seis polípticos con un rango de tamaños desde 40x150x3 pulgadas,  hasta 12x108x3 pulgadas. http://www.monikabravo.com/BREATHING_WALL_UC http://www.monikabravo.com/following/monikabravo.com/BREATHING_WALL_UC Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:34:56 +0000 monika bravo 2802456 <img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802456/breathingwallUC.009.jpg" width="670" height="418" width_o="800" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802456/breathingwallUC.009_o.jpg" data-mid="14269266" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802456/breathingwallUC.010.jpg" width="670" height="418" width_o="800" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802456/breathingwallUC.010_o.jpg" data-mid="14269272" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802456/breathingwallUC.011.jpg" width="670" height="418" width_o="800" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802456/breathingwallUC.011_o.jpg" data-mid="14269274" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802456/breathingwallUC.012.jpg" width="670" height="418" width_o="800" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802456/breathingwallUC.012_o.jpg" data-mid="14269277" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802456/breathingwallUC.013.jpg" width="670" height="418" width_o="800" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802456/breathingwallUC.013_o.jpg" data-mid="14269282" border="0" align="left"/> BREATHING_WALL_UC 2010 Urban Canvas Design Competition. In 2010, I was one of the four winners of the Urban Canvas Design Competition. The New York City Department of Buildings and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, with support from the Rockefeller Foundation, partnered to create this unique competition. I created Breathing_Wall_UC, a printed artwork for a temporary protective structure at a construction site to beautify New York City's streetscape and promote maintenance of these structures. Breathing_Wall_UC was installed temporarily in Sept. 2011 at City Point, 1 Dekalb Avenue in Brooklyn NY. The images of this piece were based on the video piece for the LAX but rendered into a more abstract and graphic form. http://www.monikabravo.com/AN-INTERVAL-OF-TIME_UTA http://www.monikabravo.com/following/monikabravo.com/AN-INTERVAL-OF-TIME_UTA Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:08:49 +0000 monika bravo 2802457 <img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802457/Screen shot 2012-03-01 at 9.56.39 PM_640.png" width="640" height="657" width_o="1037" height_o="1066" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802457/Screen shot 2012-03-01 at 9.56.39 PM_o.png" data-mid="14854519" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802457/monika_bravo_geosc_UTA._640.jpg" width="640" height="711" width_o="670" height_o="745" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802457/monika_bravo_geosc_UTA._o.jpg" data-mid="14432325" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802457/Screen shot 2012-02-19 at 3.01.37 PM_640.png" width="640" height="311" width_o="1006" height_o="490" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802457/Screen shot 2012-02-19 at 3.01.37 PM_o.png" data-mid="14432170" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802457/Screen shot 2012-02-19 at 3.10.57 PM_640.png" width="640" height="319" width_o="1009" height_o="503" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802457/Screen shot 2012-02-19 at 3.10.57 PM_o.png" data-mid="14432013" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802457/Screen shot 2012-02-19 at 3.12.36 PM_640.png" width="640" height="640" width_o="708" height_o="709" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802457/Screen shot 2012-02-19 at 3.12.36 PM_o.png" data-mid="14432076" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802457/Screen shot 2012-02-19 at 3.12.49 PM_640.png" width="640" height="320" width_o="1010" height_o="506" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802457/Screen shot 2012-02-19 at 3.12.49 PM_o.png" data-mid="14432154" border="0" align="left"/> AN INTERVAL OF TIME_UTA 2012 Time-based installation on a 6ft sphere Landmarks has commissioned a time-based installation for the University of Texas at Austin's public art collection. The video will be projected from within a six-foot spherical screen located in the Jackson School of Geoscience’s new student center. The unveiling will coincide with the opening of the student center in July 2012. By culling visual material from the geoscience school such as weather patterns, seismological charts, modelings for geohazards along with other non geological data, I will transform this information into painterly abstractions of poetic quality, thus creating a juxtaposition between the scientific and imaginary frameworks. I will compose a dynamic database that consists of a number of time base non linear variations (5-10), these independent clips will load randomly at different intervals and will be cyclical in nature with specific durations. I am interested in the correlation between the landscape’s point of view or consciousness and the human mind’s way to understand nature (charts, modelings, patterns). http://www.monikabravo.com/TIME-WILL-TELL-QUEENS-PS-IS-314 http://www.monikabravo.com/following/monikabravo.com/TIME-WILL-TELL-QUEENS-PS-IS-314 Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:05:28 +0000 monika bravo 2802414 <img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802414/monika_bravo_timewilltell.153-001_640.jpg" width="640" height="360" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802414/monika_bravo_timewilltell.153-001_o.jpg" data-mid="14330656" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802414/monika_bravo_timewilltell.134-001_640.jpg" width="640" height="360" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802414/monika_bravo_timewilltell.134-001_o.jpg" data-mid="14330746" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802414/monika_bravo_timewilltell.136-001_640.jpg" width="640" height="360" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802414/monika_bravo_timewilltell.136-001_o.jpg" data-mid="14330754" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802414/monika_bravo_timewilltell.152-001_640.jpg" width="640" height="360" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802414/monika_bravo_timewilltell.152-001_o.jpg" data-mid="14330774" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802414/monika_bravo_timewilltell.140-001.jpg" width="670" height="376" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802414/monika_bravo_timewilltell.140-001_o.jpg" data-mid="14230083" border="0" align="left"/><img 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src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802414/monika_bravo_timewilltell.069-001_640.jpg" width="640" height="360" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802414/monika_bravo_timewilltell.069-001_o.jpg" data-mid="14331195" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802414/monika_bravo_timewilltell.077-001_640.jpg" width="640" height="360" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802414/monika_bravo_timewilltell.077-001_o.jpg" data-mid="14331203" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802414/monika_bravo_timewilltell.089-001_640.jpg" width="640" height="360" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802414/monika_bravo_timewilltell.089-001_o.jpg" data-mid="14331213" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802414/monika_bravo_timewilltell.099-001_640.jpg" width="640" height="360" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802414/monika_bravo_timewilltell.099-001_o.jpg" data-mid="14331228" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802414/monika_bravo_timewilltell.111-001_640.jpg" width="640" height="360" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802414/monika_bravo_timewilltell.111-001_o.jpg" data-mid="14331240" border="0" align="left"/> TIME WILL TELL, QUEENS PS IS 314, Photographic-installation multiple murals on glass suspended on the ceiling of the Atrium. digital renderings from original proposal subject to change I am interested in the transformation of space: from landscape to cityscape, shaped first by nature through creeks, hills, marshes and reshaped by migration, language, distance and culture. the visual form is that of layered planes simile of a hologram the layers of information gathered by time, spaces divided by mind, places shaped by emotions and people. http://www.monikabravo.com/SO-FAR-AWAY-YET-SO-CLOSE http://www.monikabravo.com/following/monikabravo.com/SO-FAR-AWAY-YET-SO-CLOSE Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:01:55 +0000 monika bravo 2802389 <img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802389/sofaraway.009_640.jpg" width="640" height="400" width_o="800" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802389/sofaraway.009_o.jpg" data-mid="14270326" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802389/sofaraway.010_640.jpg" width="640" height="400" width_o="800" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802389/sofaraway.010_o.jpg" data-mid="14270331" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802389/sofaraway.011_640.jpg" width="640" height="400" width_o="800" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802389/sofaraway.011_o.jpg" data-mid="14270335" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802389/sofaraway.012_640.jpg" width="640" height="400" width_o="800" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802389/sofaraway.012_o.jpg" data-mid="14270341" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802389/sofaraway.013_640.jpg" width="640" height="400" width_o="800" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802389/sofaraway.013_o.jpg" data-mid="14270347" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802389/sofaraway.014_640.jpg" width="640" height="400" width_o="800" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802389/sofaraway.014_o.jpg" data-mid="14270351" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802389/sofaraway.015_640.jpg" width="640" height="400" width_o="800" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802389/sofaraway.015_o.jpg" data-mid="14270355" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802389/sofaraway.016_640.jpg" width="640" height="400" width_o="800" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2802389/sofaraway.016_o.jpg" data-mid="14270356" border="0" align="left"/> SO FAR AWAY YET SO CLOSE, Photographic-installation 2011 Archival pigment print on glass, aluminum ledge 12 x 72 x 3. edition of 3 In SO FAR AWAY YET SO CLOSE, I am interested on exploring the limitations and boundaries created by man’s ideologies, The political view of the borders that divide nations takes the perspective from the landscape’s point of view. Nature is unaware of conflict because is void of mind, it does not know the difference between north, south, east and west, because landscape IS, a mountain is a mountain, a river is a river and they behave as such. For this piece, I thought of the possibilities of walking the geographical border without limitations, I walked virtually along the US/Mexico border via GOOGLE earth appropriating photographs from users posted along the map and overlaying them with satellite images of the same locations. I created a long strip of timeless images only land, no fences, no bridges, nor patrols. just landscape. These natural landscapes are traced with imaginary lines that create political borders, also create differences, conflict that divide cultures. it enforces radicalism, closeness and fosters fear- http://www.monikabravo.com/BREATHING_WALL-STILLS http://www.monikabravo.com/following/monikabravo.com/BREATHING_WALL-STILLS Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:01:23 +0000 monika bravo 2801265 <img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2801265/breathingwallSTILLS.004.jpg" width="670" height="418" width_o="800" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2801265/breathingwallSTILLS.004_o.jpg" data-mid="14269833" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2801265/breathingwallSTILLS.005.jpg" width="670" height="418" width_o="800" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2801265/breathingwallSTILLS.005_o.jpg" data-mid="14269838" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2801265/breathingwallSTILLS.006.jpg" width="670" height="418" width_o="800" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2801265/breathingwallSTILLS.006_o.jpg" data-mid="14269842" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2801265/breathingwallSTILLS.007.jpg" width="670" height="418" width_o="800" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2801265/breathingwallSTILLS.007_o.jpg" data-mid="14269849" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2801265/breathingwallSTILLS.008.jpg" width="670" height="418" width_o="800" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2801265/breathingwallSTILLS.008_o.jpg" data-mid="14269853" border="0" align="left"/> BREATHING_WALL [STILLS] Photographic-installation 2010 Dimensions: variable (48 x 96 inches) Archival pigment print , Gallery Plexi Filmed in the lapse of five years, moving images of crowds in public spaces are distorted through a lens; treated as a canvas, the video format is then cut and paste weaving layers of different periods and places resulting in a color field composition of intervals of time within a space. Patterns of abstract sequences are layered and weaved into the idea of an infinite canvas (surface) that breathes. http://www.monikabravo.com/LA-ILLA-HA-ILLA-LLAH http://www.monikabravo.com/following/monikabravo.com/LA-ILLA-HA-ILLA-LLAH Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:59:14 +0000 monika bravo 2801245 LA ILLA-HA ILLA' LLAH, parts I.II.II &IV Single Channel Video with sound 2009-2010 Duration: 2:16 minutes Sound: Mike Hallenbeck <img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2801245/LAILLAHA.001.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="1024" height_o="768" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2801245/LAILLAHA.001_o.jpg" data-mid="14269143" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2801245/LAILLAHA.002.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="1024" height_o="768" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2801245/LAILLAHA.002_o.jpg" data-mid="14269147" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2801245/LAILLAHA.003.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="1024" height_o="768" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2801245/LAILLAHA.003_o.jpg" data-mid="14269148" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2801245/LAILLAHA.004.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="1024" height_o="768" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2801245/LAILLAHA.004_o.jpg" data-mid="14269151" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2801245/LAILLAHA.005.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="1024" height_o="768" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2801245/LAILLAHA.005_o.jpg" data-mid="14269155" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2801245/LAILLAHA.006.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="1024" height_o="768" src_o="http://payload25.cargocollective.com/1/6/196122/2801245/LAILLAHA.006_o.jpg" data-mid="14269159" border="0" align="left"/> Single Channel Video with sound 2009-2010 video stills La Ilaha Illa’llah (2009-2010), an ongoing series currently in 4 parts: Tornado, Volcano, mudslide and Wild Fires. Drawn from appropriated footage of natural disasters found on the Internet, La Ilaha Illa’llah transforms the images into a succession of painterly eruptions, demonstrating the power of beauty even at times of calamity and chaos, as suggested by eighteenth-century philosopher Edmund Burke’s concept of the sublime. The title of the work derives from an account from the life of thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi, who was described as whirling in devotion to Allah, chanting “la illa-ha illa’illah” until he fell into a trance of deep worship.