“Enough said... Some of you will know this is the open country. In it, you need small and big ideas. I like big cars and the universe is made from small things. There shouldn't be any speed limits on a thousand high plains.”
“Some will know architecture is like the universe, made from small parts.”
“Some will know even the big parts are small in relative thinking... How do I know..?
“Fundamentally speaking, not because I see a lot of walls, windows and ceilings from the water's edge."
“Not because my mind is like the ocean"
“And not because I can speak and script,"
“and jump.”
“I don't know.., maybe because I'm Homeboy from the plateaus.”
Photographs: Michael Rotondi
Story: Orhan Ayyüce
Previously: Homeboy on Tupperville
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more more more!
thanks odn. they are coming. another homie character is developing. more soon.
Orhan, check out Dare Wrights THE LONELY DOLL. Homeboy's lost sister perhaps...
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02EFDF143AF934A25753C1A9629C8B63
Next look at the Dare Wright's images. e
Oh graduatedlicensure, you dirty dirty gurl.
The dildo does make more sense...
Real dumb.Such a boring idea. Keep it to yourself. All of it.
I thought Archinect readers would have a better appreciation for this.
HOMEBOY uses the visual device of PERSONIFICATION, that is, giving human characteristics to things, Like postcards of dogs playing poker or Disney's singing spoons or talking teapots it is a device used alot. Think of Gumby.
But while Disney characters are just sillybor dumb HOMEBOY attempts to convey a detached irony in his observtions. Thats Orhans text, tounge and cheek, observations via his visual HOMEBOY device.
What the feeling that conveyed is probably alienation. Thats the meaning. HOMEBOY wants to come home, be authentic, be real. Of course I read too much into this. I always do.
My reference to THE LONELY DOLL is that this theme is just done better, has more resonance. Child psychologists use dolls for analysis.In the case of The loney doll images echos the fashion model turned photographer and childrens book writer Dare Wright, who died a loney alcoholic..
Would HOMEBOY work better as psycholanaylsis. Or does the collarbortion of the two personalities ROTONDI and AYYUCE block that approach.
Cant wait for the next installmant guys. e
i enjoyed the article and look forward to others if orhan and michael want to put them together. i wouldn't give too much heed to graduated's trolling.
Beautiful, Orhan. You are always a poet, even when dealing with small minds (those that can't conceive of big things).
Thank you eric, Donna and curtkram.
More in the works.
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