Video and Photos by Yannick Soyez
“Never see a need without doing something about it”
Mary MacKillop
This is a two-channel video installation that me and Yannick shot yesterday at my apartment for the first video and the second video at the beach. Normally we do just one simple video at a time but this time there were many shots and props and many ideas.
There are many ideas in the video and many come from my ten drawings a day project where I draw ten drawings every morning mainly on the back of cut up woollies bags where I study the teachings of the saints and the Dalai Lama and Pope Francis and try to make attempts at humour mainly cat jokes.
The clothes and shoes I wore for the installation include: TEMU straw hat, Levis 501 jeans, Kmart white t-shirt, Kmart brown and white-collar shirt, Swatch watch and Converse shoes and brand-new New Balance shoes. The props include fruit boxes, a black box, a small plaster sculpture (a stairwell with a doorway in it) woollies bags, Sharpie pens, TEMU neon signs and Mont Marte colour pencils.
“A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just. “
Pope Francis
I love this quote by Pope Francis and I feel I need more mercy and kindness.
The most complex shot was when I was dropping my ten drawings a day from a cardboard box I was holding into a black box on the sand and the drawings were on brown woollies bags that hold my groceries. The bags had one-word affirmations on them like compassion and altruism. There is kind of a bridge in the world peace game and they metaphorically feed me food and I cut up the ideas and rephased them in simple single words sometimes. Also, sometimes I think inside and outside the box with drawings and text of gratitude.
“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck”.
Dalai Lama
I love this quote by the Dalai Lama and I need more gratitude for what I have including a nice roof over my head and food and money for art materials and props.
“Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.”
Malala Yousafzai
I love this quote by Malala and I feel she is wise beyond her age a great inspiration everywhere to get an education and shine.
In conclusion these videos shall feature in my next show titled: Sometimes I am a Scaredy-Cat but when I think of Pope Francis and the Dalai Lama: I feel safe and happy. The photo with me and text shall be a big A0 unframed photo.
Pakistani education activist
