I’m Shabby
“I’m Shabby” is a story about a presence-having-been. The gentle traces of existence. If Shabby was an object, he would be an electric candle. Existing in the analog space, but having to cope with going electric. How does one present and represent the subtle aura, a feeling of a space?
Perceptions are subjective, but with Shabby tells a story of a person grabbing onto the offline life, the rituals, and the subtleties of it, while coexisting with technology.
Shabby does not want to take up too much space or fight for attention. Shabby wants to fill space and feel space, too, but not in a belligerent way. A pocketbook, that resembles a diary.
As the project itself is about spaces, I wanted to give each space in which the creation of this project took place some dignity. There were three.
The atelier, where the book is laid on the desk, looking outside.
The Église Notre-Dame du Sablon, which I stumbled into by accident on my first week in Brussels after missing the 93 tram.
And the tennis courts, where the back-and-forth tossing of the ball could only continue for as long as I was able to keep my mind’s space empty.
I got a burn scar from my electric candle.
All this talk of flesh and circuitry got me thinking about the immortality once promised.
Big thank you to Gio Megrelishvili for making the audio possible