STUDIO RENT EDITIONS
Starting in September 2010 a series of editions will be made every month titled Studio Rent Editions. Each will be an edition of ten at $33 USD each*. The sale of these will subsidize the rent of my artist-studio in Brooklyn, New York. Each new piece will be made in the studio during the respective month. Descriptions of current and past pieces will be posted on this web-page. An edition of one Two Month Security Deposit piece will also be made in conjunction with these editions.
NOTE: AS OF AUGUST 2011, I HAVE MOVED TO A NEW STUDIO IN LONG ISLAND CITY. EDITIONS WILL BE $1 MORE TO COMPENSATE FOR THE HIGHER PRICE OF RENT.
TWO MONTH SECURITY DEPOSITthis is an edition of one$660the piece includes a photo-copy of the studio contract and a signed statement indicating the information below:upon my leaving the studio at an unknown future date, the $660 will be returned to the purchaser, under the condition that it is returned to me from the landlord
- SOLD
SEPTEMBER 2010 EDITION
- SOLD OUT
OCTOBER 2010 EDITION
- SOLD OUT
- NOVEMBER 2010 EDITION
- SOLD OUT
- DECEMBER 2010 EDITION
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- Two 5" x 7" color matte prints. The dark image was made by wrapping Christmas lights around my body. The other (above) image is obvious: in a store that sold wreaths and Christmas trees, I put wreaths over my head.
JANUARY 2011 EDITION - A View of the Pacific Ocean From My Studio
- SOLD OUT
- APRIL 2011 EDITION: FERRY ACROSS THE NORTH SEA
- April's edition was made outside my studio - on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. It was made while on a ferry traveling from England to Holland. It includes 1 polaroid and 1 crushed British 5 pence coin with an image of a ferry stamped on it. The polaroid is a view from the ferry, as it traveled across the North Sea. The image of the ferry that is stamped into the coin is the same ferry I was traveling on, made on the boat from the coin-stamping machine.
- If you order this in April it will be mailed from Holland.
- MAY EDITION 2011 EDITION: FROM DUCHAMP'S GRAVE (ROUEN, FRANCE)
- This edition includes 2 polaroid photographs, and five 4"x6" matte print photographs. The five prints are "out takes" made while posing on Marcel Duchamp's grave in Rouen, France to create a photograph to be inserted into Duchamps Wikipedia article (this is the inserted photograph: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Duchampgrave.jpg). The polaroids consist of one image of his grave, and another image taken in the cemetary.
- JUNE 2011
- In the summers there is a watermelon vendor who sits on Nostrand and Myrtle in Brooklyn, near my house. For June's edition, I bought the biggest watermelon that was being sold on June 21st, and took it to look at the Atlantic Ocean in Coney Island. The edition includes: 1) two 5"x7" photographic prints 2) a small text 3) an email including various photographic documentation by a cellular phone camera.
- JULY 2011
- I was nomintated for the Discovery Prize at this year's photo festival in Arles, France. French film-maker, Chris Marker, was also featured in this year's festival. I brought a Maneki Neko with me to Arles, the Japanese welcome cat, and put it in different places in Arles in an attempt to meet Chris Marker (since he has a cat obsession). Instead of me trying to find him, I thought it'd be more likely that he found the cat. The edition includes seven photographic color prints, and a short text.
- AUGUST 2011
SOLD OUT
- SEPTEMBER 2011 (STEALING FLOWERS TO LEARN HOW TO DRAW)
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- This edition includes: a 8.5" x 11" color photocopy print on heavy matte paper, a "unique" 8.5" x 11" text print-out with color pencil writing, a stapled stack of 8.5" x 11" photo-copies of the last part of a book I just read (Hartmut Rosa, Alienation and Acceleration), and about 10 or so emails.
- Since the beginning of this month I have started to teach myself to draw. I have never really taken any drawing or painting classes before, and I have never really habitually drawn. This month's edition can maybe be seen as a kind of documentation of this process of learning. The color print is of two drawings I recently made, a text I wrote of putting together some thoughts of what I was doing (with "unique" color markings on each one), and photocopies of a book I was reading. The reading is loosely related, it looks at time and speed. In a sense, learning how to draw was not just learning a technique, but also re-teaching myself how to sit and focus on one thing for a long time. How to spend time with something.
- I am serious about this. I am making drawings everyday. And maybe will do it FOREVER. This edition will also include emails of drawings as I finish them, sent from my iPad, using it's horrible camera. You'll probably get 10 or so emails... And you will receive them in your email box right when I finish them. IN THE MOMENT. This is an example.
- If anyone wants an original drawing (uhh, I've only been doing this for a few weeks...), email me and we can negotiate something.
- OCTOBER 2011 (A BOUQUET OF WHITE ROSES FOR #OCCUPYWALLSTREET)
- This edition is one photograph, 8 inches by 10 inches, and a text (all editions from now on will have a text).
- A bouquet of white roses was made in a glass vase from a flower shop a few blocks from the Occupy Wall Street protests in NYC. I then took the vase to Liberty Square, walked around for a bit, and some more, and some more, and some more, until I found the perfect place to donate the vase. I handed it to one of the organizers in the square, and then walked away. I don't know where it is now.
- ONE LEFT, EMAIL ME IF YOU WANT IT.
- DECEMBER 2011 (A TRIP AT JFK, WITH THE SETTING SUN)
- This edition is three 4"x6" photographs + a text. Last year I made an edition for Art Metropole for their Gifts by Artists series. My edition was my New Year's resolutions. I looked at the resolutions and saw something I had not done yet for 2011. So I did it.. I'm not going to write what I did here... It's on the text...
- JANUARY 2012 (LEAVE ME ALONE)
- THIS edition is one 5"x7" matte print + a text. I was sent a Youtube link to an amateur music video made for New Order's, Leave Me Alone. There was some speculation whether the photograph used by the unknown video maker was a photograph of me looking at the ocean. One of the points of my previous Public Access project was that the images would circulate online with an unknown future. The photograph used in the video looks like one of my photographs. It looks like it is from Malibu or Venice. The person stands like me. And has a similar jacket. However, there is no certainty. And I do not have the photographs I shot on this beach anymore. The still is from a video transition to an image of the stars. In summary of the Youtube video, the maker says that the images in the video were found online, using keywords like "lonliness" and "sadness."
- FEBRUARY 2012
- Before walking ino the subway a police officer gave me a flyer on "PEDESTRIAN SAFETY TIPS." I've slightly altered the flier, and made a photograph to go with it. The edition is one 8.5 x 11 photocopy of the NYPD hand-out (with color pencil), and a 5"x7" matte photograph.
Subscriptions are available. This will guarantee you will not miss any future pieces. For information email: hikarusaru @ gmail.com.
* The monthly rent for my shared-studio is $315. The editions/ security deposit piece is a little higher to accommodate Paypal fees. For shipping outside the US, there is a $10 shipping fee.
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