The Wandering Potato

TILKKU TAKKI / PATCHWORK - Tony Pelkonen, Venla Ververs, Hannah Macza - Two Finnish came with the plan to create an art show in response to Lisboa through two weeks of paying attention. They serendipitously shared an apartment with a Canadian writer and decided to collaborate. The result is a patchwork of ourselves with Lisboa as the backdrop, shown through film, soundscapes, drawings, poetry, painting, and story. MELTING POT  - (it shows up as a blank space but it's there if you click) Here is the video we collaborated on. It's about 20min long, and the sound (Velna) and video (Tony) were recorded COMPLETELY separately (the camera had no sound function) and patchworked together.  The main elements I contributed were some watercolour and pastel resist drawings; for me, they were very much scenes of tranquillity that I felt were impossible to find in the city and that I deeply craved. My other contribution was:  Double Meaning – These photographs were found at the Lis...

Dear everybody,  I miss the blog! Do you miss the blog? Welp, either way, we are back baby! I am writing to you from a McDonald’s in Portugal. Yup. Sorry Mother Earth. I write to a background of clubbing music, people drinking beers on a Saturday morning with their happy meals (I guess you can order that here, a true Portuguese special). I fill my water bottles from the bathroom and charge all my batteries, including my own! I set myself a very interesting challenge, booking a flight from inside my tent in Tafedna, Morocco, 3,000 kilometer’s away leaving from Paris On may 18th.   Home? Yes home! I decided it was time to end my journey. I’ve been trying to get to 100k’s everyday to make the distance which, actually, at this point is physically impossible as I am still in the south of Portugal. Thank Allah for trains…and possibly hitch hiking? And buying a flexible plane ticket.   I know I owe you all stories from the rest of my months in Morocco…I have So, so much to say b...