Joseph Calleja

CON•STANT

2012-02-19T17:13:00.000Z

con•stant

2012-02-16T10:25:00.001Z

Jonn Galea's design for con•stant

www.jonngalea.com

CON•STANT

2012-02-16T10:02:00.000Z

CON•STANT

2012-02-07T17:41:00.001Z

CARDINALSIN

2012-02-02T12:00:00.000Z

Amazing coexistence of concept and visual execution

WHATWASILOOKINGAT

2012-01-31T15:30:00.000Z

Visuals with translucent quality and depth inform my current practice which takes form in drawing, painting, sculpture, photography and more recently installation. With sources ranging from sedimentary rock to car dumps, rust reclamation to curvatures in ecclesiastical architecture, retail window displays to marine photography, the subject matter becomes important with regard to the human presence framed in these physical places bound by the reality of space and time. Hence I consider my enquiries to be more of a metaphysical nature.

June 2010

HOLDENONTHEROOF

2012-01-22T09:00:00.002Z

Ideas about collaboration with Holden on the Roof, drawing on 'the pixel is worthy of the gods', a project I have started working on last year. Further work to follow responding to new tracks Holden on the roof are currently working on.

DAVIDCASS

2012-01-18T12:12:00.001Z

http://www.nftu.co.uk/2012/01/18/interview-with-david-cass/

ILLUMINATING

2012-01-13T10:50:00.001Z

http://thoughtsonartandteaching.blogspot.com/2011/12/ten-threshold-concepts-in-fine-art.html#aface

TURRISEBURNEA

2012-01-10T17:21:00.002Z

467278937

2012-01-09T10:21:00.001Z

2008

467278937

2012-01-08T11:33:00.000Z

LAVOGLIADIVIVERE

2012-01-08T10:07:00.001Z

LAVOGLIADIVIVERE

ULMUSPARVIFOLIA

2012-01-04T19:11:00.000Z

2012, for me starts with a few plants. I am not questioning the fascination, and definitely I will not label it as obsession. More than the fascination with these living organisms that require my attention, it is fascination itself that interests me. I seem to have lost it in 2011, due to several reasons. I will do my best to revive whatever it is that lay dormant last year or almost died while i abide by a couple of thoughts that have been lingering lately. Day by day... like these plants almost.

2011-12-21T19:33:00.001Z

OD–4.75–2.00x175OS–5.25–2.25x2

2011-12-10T15:58:00.000Z

With blurred vision, I strain to see. Seeing with glasses I gaze away, bypassing to ignore.

OD–4.75–2.00x175OS–5.25–2.25x2

2011-12-09T17:13:00.000Z

Just realised how easy it is for me if i wanted to withhold the truth about something or even telling a lie without detecting. I think it happens more because of the lack of direct contactwith the other person even if there seems to be one, but really at the end in this state I'm looking at you does not mean I am reacting to you because I can't.

OD–4.75–2.00x175OS–5.25–2.25x2

2011-12-09T16:56:00.000Z

Thinking about it, I feel that this exercise is not replicable, ore better saying that there are other things at play beyond my precise deficiency: such as my character, outlook, naturalractions and other elements that to some extent vision has shaped in my history. Vision not as how clear or less i am able to see things but how i perceive things: culturally, physically those of the spirit world and those of psychological nature.

Living in the present is something that always evaes me and accpetance is one of the hardest of simple things i struggle with, because it does not require any physical motion but it takes thinking a priori of things that seem to be in act rahter than potency. it is not my aim to indoctirante or even inform as much as to trigger maybe a thought or an idea in those to whom it appeals.

The second brief feeling today wehn my eyues got really tired that it felt like i had lenses on and i found myself rubbing them to remove that plastic sheen inorder to let my eyes breathe, but this is more strange than looking for my glasses because I very rarely wear lenses. I suppose it is the most familiar thing that I experienced (lenses) during the same time of not having the weihgt of the frame posing on my face.

OD–4.75–2.00x175OS–5.25–2.25x2

2011-12-08T20:33:00.000Z

Out of all things sitting at a computer is the worst without my specs... I am off to work now soon, I am afraid i have to take my spare old glasses with me in my old bag. If something happens on work i cannot afford to be in the haze, but I will do my best to stick to the task! Tomorrow is going to be harder if I am to go through what is required of me during the day!

OD–4.75–2.00x175OS–5.25–2.25x2

2011-12-08T20:22:00.000Z

Installation of my glasses in INSPACE for 3 days

OD–4.75–2.00x175OS–5.25–2.25x2

2011-12-08T17:59:00.000Z

I suppose having too much happening when in this state is as bewildering as much as having nothing much on either. It goes to from noticing how much i would have enjoyed lunch much more if i could see it beforehand to having to decide how to juggle the weekend with a possibility of skipping the conference having to travel by train,,, possibly...also being called onto night duty tonight. not sure...

It was very tempting today to fetch my old crappy specs to get some results when looking for something or just even keep them with me just in case i am i end up in a messy situation...

a couple of friends phoned me to wish happy birthday today, it was interesting how i noticed that during these phonecalls it did nto seem so muchh importnat that i could not see clearly and i am starting to nnitice which muscles in my face realax when im not squinting my eyes trying to focus on somehting.

By the sounds of it, never has been a more appropriate expression.

OD–4.75–2.00x175OS–5.25–2.25x2

2011-12-08T11:12:00.000Z

I keep on trying to look for somehting that i cannot see

OD–4.75–2.00x175OS–5.25–2.25x2

2011-12-08T10:24:00.000Z

It is not that without my glasses I am realising new things. It is more how my thoughts project and bounce back into my head, htere is this kindof veil that slows things down. I was thinking more about Rosalie s work this morning and yesterday, in re to the phantom limb or the extended body. M y vision felt clerest ths morning as i woke up. i am not sure if that is because at that stage my eyes are most rested or it is habitual to experience the workd like that. but instinctively after my shower I tried to reach for my glasses at several times, and yesterday i tried to adjust my glasses several times while I was not wearing any.

OD–4.75–2.00x175OS–5.25–2.25x2

2011-12-07T19:03:00.000Z

It is almost the end of the first conference day. I missed the last talk becasue i ahd to go and buy led lights for my piece. I fel quite dismayed i jsut stuck the lights on the side quite in an arbitrary fashion. very much in a way that clashes with the pristine inspace. Anyway, i am not blaming that becasue i am not wearing glasses, but it is because of recurring attitude. wehn i am feeling that i have to rush something becuase i am in an awkward position, I think that awkward is one riht adjective to apply to my current state..I found the confernerce quite interesting but as well quite hard to follow because of low concentration level. Assimilating all the point of viewws today and making them my own would be a good goal, however... I am kept wondering what is the value n all this. Why this performance, or i shluld like to stop calling it that, my art. I was thinking of using these three days to reflect in my practice, I feel at a loss at the moment what i am looking at not literally, but in my art. Previously my statement was that from sedimentary rock to ecclesiastical architecture to otehr things, i am interested not in subject matter of these visuals, but how these spaces frame the human presence and more importnatny the human choices made wihting these frameworks, and the repercussions following,. I have labelled myself in my undergrad as a visual artist. and i insisted that because through my research and interest was based on the study of visuals, ant their interpretation, before the context took over my work in my degree show piece and i decided to focus on site specificity within my studies..

I am hoping that by doint this exercise, something will come out of it, in terms of either rreducing the familiarity and explore oaher sources of perception.

It almost feels siilar to waht one would do in doing the desert experience, in spiritual terms. Instead of removing myself from my environment by taking my whole self out of the equasion i just removed one little tool. IT feels lie q quite persoanl poiece this work, in the sense i do not think it would have much effect if my vision was much better and removing my glasses and i could almost see the same. on the other hand if my vision was much worse i would not have been able to find my way about and exploring the other points.

It is not like i would have altered my vision by putting somehting on, (like when i gave my glases to some people wihtin the conference when they asked how bad was my eyesight) but it is my natural vision that I am working with. Going to be 30 tomorrow, makes this event a bit more important for me. it is a kind of rite of passage, i do not know into what, but it is going to by my first blurry birthday, i had glasses since i was primary 3.

OD–4.75–2.00x175OS–5.25–2.25x2

2011-12-07T17:10:00.000Z

It is a great feeling that i was looking for in this work - the stage when I stop thinking of it as a performance. When I think of a performance I think of a stage and rehearsal.and those are things that i never wanted to be involved in through this work. For the time being it is hard to gether my thoughts. The sense of vision is still domineering. i think im going to stop trying to correct my typos, half of htem are becuase i can berely see the keyboard or sometimes in case of more complex words i jsut actulaay usually i rely on the machine to keep me right.

OD–4.75–2.00x175OS–5.25–2.25x2

2011-12-07T11:50:00.000Z

Just started, it feels artiicial and staged. with re questioning self awareness ats much as possivle. best to think about others people uedeas and thouughts. of the conference for the tieme being

OD–4.75–2.00x175OS–5.25–2.25x2

2011-12-07T08:35:00.000Z

It starts today, although it was lingering on my mind for a bit. Documenting observations and thoughts on here... it is hard not to edit, for what purpose though! It feels almost like doing a self portrait. Laura Cumming suggested that the self portrait might be a truest kind of portrait, even if it idealised or controlled by how the artist wants him/herself perceived. But even the fact of omitting something would tell more about that person than having the thing itself represented. I am not sure as to what time I will be removing my glasses, there is a couple of things i really need to do before I relinquish them on the plinth, like shaving my overgrown beard.

OD–4.75–2.00x175OS–5.25–2.25x2

2011-12-07T08:22:00.000Z

From C. Classen’s 2011 article ‘Green Pleasures’, this work reflects on the intrinsic positive values attributed to each sense: to see, to hear, to smell, to touch, to taste, versus the state of detachment and passivity that the domineering sense of sight might have shaped within contemporary culture. OD – 4.75 – 2.00 x 175 OS – 5.25 – 2.25 x 2 delineates a personal deficiency that will be at the heart of the artist’s proposal for the duration of the conference. The proposed performance centred installation will attempt to make the sense of sight less detached from the rest of the senses, not by completely disregarding it but by letting it exist in its natural astigmatic form. The artists thoughts and observations for the duration of the whole project will be collated in this blog

OD–4.75–2.00x175OS–5.25–2.25x2

2011-12-07T00:53:00.001Z

This is a link to the programme of Sensory Worlds conference. The list of installations can be found on page 26.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/28976322/SensoryWorldsProgramme-1.pdf

RESURGENTFROMTHEPAST

2011-12-04T20:48:00.000Z

CARDROSSCOLLEGE

2011-11-26T20:29:00.000Z

OD–4.75–2.00x175OS–5.25–2.25x2

2011-11-26T20:27:00.004Z

OD–4.75–2.00x175OS–5.25–2.25x2

2011-11-11T14:15:00.001Z

OD – 4.75 – 2.00 x 175

OS – 5.25 – 2.25 x 2

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/28976322/Proposal%20INSPACE%20Joseph%20Calleja.pdf

TURRISEBURNEA

2011-11-08T10:31:00.001Z

TGHID?

2011-11-05T20:38:00.000Z

I love this structure almost as much I used to hate it. I love this photo in spite of knowing how tarted up and fake it is. I love the place inasmuch as it holds on the delicate balance and trembles upon what fate shall shape it. I like the ways in which this photo epitomises several spheres of human life as I see it.

THEEMANCIPATEDSPECTATOR

2011-11-01T15:58:00.000Z

Artists, like researchers, build the stage where the manifestation and the effect of their competences become dubious as they frame the story of a new adventure in a new idiom. The effect of the idiom cannot be anticipated. It calls for spectators who are active interpreters, who render their own translation, who appropriate the story for themselves, and who ulti- mately make their own story out of it.

Jacques Rancière

SENNA

2011-10-27T23:33:00.003+01:00

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1424432/

ILLUMINATING

2011-10-16T14:15:00.002+01:00

http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/art-rules/

LUMEN

2011-10-09T19:03:00.002+01:00

LUMEN

2011-10-08T17:03:00.001+01:00

LUMEN

2011-09-15T21:11:00.000+01:00

WEBSITECHANGED

2011-09-13T17:16:00.002+01:00

www.josephcalleja.co.uk

Castlehill Primary 6 drawings for Lumen

2011-09-06T10:52:00.000+01:00

http://castlehillp6drawings.blogspot.com/

CUPARARTSFESTIVAL2011

2011-09-05T13:25:00.002+01:00

Lumen

Lumen, which can both refer to a central space of a biological vessel such as an artery, or to the measurement of the power of light perceived by the eye, becomes an appropriate title for this outdoor work that can only take shape upon the movement of the viewer through the close and the power of the sunlight. Created from work by local schoolchildren at CastlehillPrimary School, who were asked to make drawings or writings in response to what makes Cupar special to them, this artwork is drawn directly onto the walls of the close leading to the courtyard of the old school on Millgate in light- sensitive transparent ink. Solar-powered lights installed in the close will gradually reveal the invisible drawings as viewers move in and out of the passageway, creating a sense of purpose during the journey and a space for refelection. An associated exhibition of the children’s drawings can be found at Cupar YMCA.

77CLOSINGDOWNEVENTSOLARPAVILIONST.ANDREW'SSQUAREEDINBURGH

2011-09-05T13:24:00.000+01:00

77OUTOFSITECOLLABORATIONSOLARPAVILION

2011-08-21T12:45:00.000+01:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7AldTsPb0c

WHAT|WAS|EMBARRASSING|FOR|THEM|BECAME|SOMETHING|THEY|LOVED

2011-08-09T10:40:00.000+01:00

http://www.ronarad.co.uk

SOLARPAVILION

2011-08-06T20:23:00.002+01:00

http://www.solarpavilion.co.uk/

CAPEWRATH

2011-07-21T11:11:00.003+01:00

occulto quod servo

SOLARPAVILION

2011-07-19T20:18:00.002+01:00

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Solar-Pavilion/174022769331916

ARBORETUM|ALOOKBACK

2011-07-13T10:51:00.002+01:00

ARBORETUM|ALOOKBACK

2011-07-13T10:49:00.002+01:00

ARBORETUM|ALOOKBACK

2011-07-13T10:24:00.002+01:00

THEPIXELISWORTHYOFTHEGODS

2011-07-11T12:41:00.003+01:00

THEAIM

2011-07-10T18:18:00.002+01:00

integrity |inˈtegritē|

noun

1 the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness : he is known to be a man of integrity.

2 the state of being whole and undivided : upholding territorial integrity and national sovereignty.

• the condition of being unified, unimpaired, or sound in construction : the structural integrity of the novel.

• internal consistency or lack of corruption in electronic data : [as adj. ] integrity checking.

ORIGIN late Middle English (sense 2) : from French intégrité or Latin integritas, from integer ‘intact’ (see integer ). Compare with entirety , integral , and integrate .

THEPIXELISWORTHYOFTHEGODS

2011-07-10T18:16:00.003+01:00

THEPIXELISWORTHYOFTHEGODS

2011-07-09T22:03:00.001+01:00

ACCESS|COLLABORATION|CALLEJA|CASS|SOLAR

2011-06-16T19:28:00.001+01:00

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/28976322/Statement%20CASS%20%26%20CALLEJA.pdf

COLLABORATION|CALLEJA|CASS|SOLAR

2011-06-13T08:32:00.001+01:00

Image chosen for our collaboration at the 'Solar Pavilion' St. Andrew Square Edinburgh.

COLLABORATIONWITHDAVIDCASS|THELAUDERMOORINBETWEENTHECATTLEGATESAND77MGARRROADQALAGOZOMALTA

2011-06-09T11:37:00.000+01:00

2VERYINTERESTINGARTICLESBYPETERSCHJELDAHLINFORMINGCALLEJA|CASS|SOLARCOLLABORATION

2011-06-07T16:43:00.005+01:00

http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/of-ourselves-and-of-our-origins-subjects-of-art/

http://www.parshift.com/Speakers/Speak013.htm

CUPARARTSFESTIVALPOSTCARD|INVITE

2011-06-05T09:25:00.003+01:00

COLLABORATION|CALLEJA|CASS|SOLAR

2011-06-03T17:34:00.002+01:00

Gurdan Lighthouse was the starting point of the brainstorm for the collaboration. Things have moved on a bit since, but it is a site that might be revisited, maybe not necessarily for this project. Thanks so far to Dad and Carmelo Grima who helped me on with some research data.

COLLABORATION|CALLEJA|CASS|SOLAR

2011-06-02T17:04:00.003+01:00

Collaboration with David Cass on the Project, Solar - part of the Edinburgh Arts Festival at the Pavillion at

St. Andrew's square proposed by Prof. Karen Forbes. This is not the image we are using for the collaboration but, it is a selection of two images of my studio back at home. Details about the proposal of the collaboration will be posted as soon as...

GĦAJNEJNKULHADDIĦARSULEJKMULEJUINTITAGĦTIHOMIKELF'WAQTU

2011-06-01T17:48:00.000+01:00

THEPIXELISWORTHYOFTHEGODS

2011-05-31T19:24:00.002+01:00

THEPIXELISWORTHYOFTHEGODS

2011-05-28T21:03:00.004+01:00

LOGOADAPTEDFROMSYNDERESIS

2011-05-26T16:23:00.001+01:00

CUPARARTSFESTIVALAPPROACHES

2011-05-26T09:12:00.001+01:00

2011-05-25T11:57:00.004+01:00

Deciding to start a blog. Just wanted a space where I can look back, comment and keep a record of my thoughts and work. Starting a blog with a work that i just finished last week for a friend of mine who is going to be ordained this week. This is the invite for his first mass, to which the theme is ‘All look to you in hope and you feed them with the food of the season’ from psalm 145. I consider this work as a maquette because finally I consider that such image would have worked better as a screen print rather than a painting.

GĦAJNEJNKULHADDIĦARSULEJKMULEJUINTITAGĦTIHOMIKELF'WAQTU

2011-05-25T11:28:00.002+01:00