7/31/2023 0 Comments Book called conversations with godIt goes both ways image to highlight language, language to highlight image. So when I want some language to be highlighted in my work, I just write it and put images over it so that it attracts. It’s almost like when you want people, or yourself, to look at certain words, you highlight them or mark them. JKA: I’m assuming other people may have the same problem as me, that if there is no (visual) attraction, they cannot read-which is not true. And then sometimes you use text in your work, in your drawings. I just collect all these things, like if somebody teaches me new vocabulary, I remember that person with that word, like a “doula” or “janky.” I don’t think you taught me any new words. That is why I loved being with writers, actually, because they’re such good storytellers. Going back to the question of why I go to residencies, even if it’s distracting-it’s because I collect those languages. JKA: Because I’m dyslexic and also I’m not a native English speaker, English, to me, was like material to just play with. You know? And so can you talk more about that, how language operates in your work? RP: I feel like your relationship to language was one of the things that interested me about you and your work, because you seem to be really engaged with language, even in the dinner conversations. I write a lot… It was so embarrassing to be with the writers. RP: I mean, your work is kind of multidisciplinary. That distraction is the best part of being in a residency like Yaddo, which has other people in other disciplines, because I don’t meet those people in my studio, and I usually don’t even go outside much when I’m working in my studio. RP: Did you find the interdisciplinary aspect, although distracting, to also be productive? Like, I try to remember my room in Yaddo, and try to remake it here. Now I can do the memory-based project of my time at Yaddo. RP: Is it easier for you to work when you’re back home in your own studio? JKA: There are so many writers and inside jokes to remember. But I couldn’t get into the space because of meeting new people. So I pretty much isolate myself and imagine the space and time. And my other plan, which was to do a memory-based project of what happened last winter with my health and my personal things in Korea, also didn’t happen because I couldn’t get into the space, the memory space, because, as you know, we had to have (communal) dinner every day.Īnd usually, when I do memory-based projects, I have to get into the space. I had a project which was titled “Messing Up the Melodies For Chasing After Missing Lyrics.” So basically, you’re looking at so many details that you’re messing up the whole song. Joeun Kim Aatchim: I actually had this clear plan. What were you working on during the residency? Rajesh Parameswaran: So, we met during a residency at Yaddo. In this conversation, they discuss the distractions of residencies, how much viewers and readers should be asked to imagine, artistic layering, shifts in perspective, the mortality of memories, pain, and Emily Dickinson. His presence will be missed but we were blessed to have him among us.Writer Rajesh Parameswaran ( I Am An Executioner: Love Stories ) and painter and multimedia artist Joeun Kim Aatchim met at Yaddo in 2023, where they struck up an interdisciplinary friendship. But I especially remember him as a holy and gentle man. He was certainly a giant in the field of the history of astronomy, and of course his knowledge of Copernicus was legendary. We first met when I was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard, with an office just down the hall from him, back in 1978. Owen was a longtime friend of the Specola Vaticana, and I was honored to consider him a personal friend as well. The president of the Vatican Observatory, Br. He also served as an astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Astronomical Observatory. Gingerich went on to study astronomy at Harvard University, where he would eventually teach astronomical history. As a teen he became fascinated by how variable stars changed in brightness. His interest in astronomy began in childhood. Gingerich grew up in a Mennonite family amid the plains of the Midwest. Owen Gingerich, who passed away on March 28, 2023, thought otherwise: “It seems to me that religion and religious views were very much handmaidens to the birth of modern science.” He believed that the scientific method owed much to “the kind of reasoning that Thomas Aquinas laid out.” Many people assume that science and religion must always be in conflict. Owen Gingerich, who died last month, insisted that science and religion were compatible.
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