David Chalmers Alesworth

Febuary-March, Cantt. Lahore, Ganche, Baltistan

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Carrots in the washing basket, 13 March 2010
I’ve been thinking about inserting carrots into this plastic washing basket since i got it about two years ago.It seems made for them. Though I hadn’t counted on its flexibility nor their weight. Then there’s the lack of symmetry in an average Pakistani carrot. These black carrots are amazing, they seem another whole species from their bland orange cousins. The bigger picture is a putting together of the product of industry and the produce of nature. Both are interventions of a sort, neither are “natural”. This goes beyond my anthology of plastics.
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Black and red carrots, 13 March 2010

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Black Carrot juice, 26th March 2010, Lahore

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 Carrots in the clothes basket, 13th March 2010

 

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 Mixed carrots and plastic

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 Black carrots and orange plastic, 13th March 2010

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The shoot

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set-up with  Nikon D3

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Dyed eggs for Naurose,

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Appo Jaffar, at Khaplu Palace, Baltistan 23rd March 2010

 

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Khaplu village from above, 23rd March 2010

 

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Khaplu high plateau in search of lawn-grass, 23rd March 2010

 

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Panorama with Huna, Khaplu 23rd March 2010

 

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Black Peppercorn Haier top-loader, detergent free twin tub, 14th March 2010

 

R.A. Bazaar Bombings, Friday 12th March 2010
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Body parts, mobile phone advert, R.A. bazaar Bombings, Friday 12th March 2010

 

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Washing down R.A. Bazaar, bombings, 12th March 2010

 

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R.A. Bazaar bombings, 12th March 2010
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Just outside Skardu by road, 23rd March 2010

 

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Cabbage White’s eating all my Ruccola, 26th March 2010

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“Desi Unday” Bilal Gunj

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I went back to “Bilal Gunj” Lahore’s massive used car part market for a second sound sampling, a few days ago. This time with Huma’s 4 channel Zoom recorder.

In over an hour of walking the lanes I got reasonably varied ambient sound from the breakers, welders, paint-sprayers and a great many gas and kerosene burners heating food and tea. On this trip I realized there was a tremendous culture of food going on here.

Fish, tea, sweet-potatoes, chena, monpelli, carrot juice, egg-fried rice, subzi and dal, roti’s of every description and finally hot, boiled desi-unday. I’d almost given up on the eggs. I kept asking where the sellers were, because it was their presence selling these beautiful subtle-hued, small precious des-unday (local-eggs/free-range eggs) in the context of these ancient and smashed oily wrecks of cars and trucks that had given rise to the egg and engine photographs.

Suddenly they were there running through the lanes, two sellers I’d never seen before. They both carried padded bags to keep the boiled eggs warm, their cry was garam-desi-unday and I realized this would give a somewhat different spin on the photographs. They’d be read as engine heated eggs, not what I’d intended.

I’d intended the teeming living eggs as nature amongst the toxic waste of the man-made, the guts of the engines.

I produced a 12 minute mixed edit of the garam-unday criers and the ambient sounds on my stroll through the richly varied soundscape in the lanes of this market. Hazrat Data Ganj Bakhsh‘s shrine minarets can be heard throughout the work, a constant accompaniment at Bilal Gunj. This shrine to the patron saint of Lahore, lies right in front of the car market.

“966th URS Shareef is on 3 Feb 2010 Inshallah”
966 Urs Mubarak Of Hazrat Data Ganj Bakhsh Ali Hajveri Will Held On 19 Safar al Muzaffar And 4 February 2010 (Approx) At Data Darbar , Near Bhatti Gate, Lahore. Pakistan
Days Remaining In URS Hazrat Data Ganj Bakhsh

His birthday is being celebrated today which a holiday in most of Punjab.

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Mochi Gate, Old City, Lahore 29th November 2009

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Over Bakra Eid in Lahore, November 2009, near Mochi Gate, Walled City.

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Skinning a sheep, near Mochi Gate
(also see movie clip)

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Sheep

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Wiring and speakers

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BA English

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Nan Katai shop

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Nan Katai’s

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Carolyn Guertin

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Bazaar life

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Bazaar

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Cleaning Goats Heads

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Goats Heads

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Processing goat parts

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also see the movie clip

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Dry Fruit Stall

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Carolyn Guertin

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Brain Computers

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Brain Computers

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Beautiful animals for Eid

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Remains

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Skins on a bike

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Skins at the roadside

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Modes of Enquiry

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Currently I am involved with:

Walking Lahore as psychogeographical derivé. Starting at the Ganda Nala on Zafar Ali Road, Gulberg.

Working with Lawrence Gardens, Bagh-e-Jinnah.
Had an initial walk through the park on an exceptionally drab smoggy day. Met with head mali Alam and his staff and borrowed plans of the park and other parks of Lahore.

The People’s Art and Historical Project.
A collaboration with Adnan Madani, Karachi/London.
We are working on several new versions of the People’s Art Historical Garden Centre Project, that was performed to good effect at the opening of Greynoise’s recent showing on 25th October 2009, entitled “Patrons of Oh My God, I can afford Art”.

Beginning work on my dissertation “The Post-Colonial Garden as a Palimpsest”.
Busy reading. Recently finished K. Helphand’s “Defiant Gardens”, much else to write up here.

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MANUFACTURER OF ” ” ROAD BLOCKER ” ” in KARACHI LAHORE ISLAMABAD PAKISTAN , WE ALSO MADE TURNSTILE GATES & REMOTE CONTROLL GATES IN PAKISTAN -NOW WE CAN STOP A BOMBER TRUCK WHO IS TRYING ENTERING & BLOW THE WHOLE BUILDING FROM HIS TRUCK .

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100 % MADE IN PAKISTAN , IMPORTED SYSTEMS ARE EXPENSIVE WE ARE DIRECT MANUFACTURER IN PAKISTAN , INSTALLATION , AFTER SALES & SERVICES IS EASY FOR ALL OVER PAKISTAN CUSTOMERS -EASY SMOOTH OPERATION OF OUR OWN MADE SYSTEM IS AVAILABLE AT HALF PRICE THEN IMPORTED SYSTEMS -WE ARE DIRECT MANUFACTURER OF FORCED FULLY HARD STOP” ” ROAD BLOCKER ” “WE ALSO MADE – TURNSTILE GATES & REMOTE CONTROLL GATES , IN PAKISTAN – SEE OUR OTHER ADDS HERE –

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NOW WE CAN STOP A BOMBER TRUCK WHO IS TRYING TO ENTERING & BLOW THE WHOLE BUILDING – WE CAN STOP THAT BASTARD –

OUR EQUIPMENT IS REALLY A LIFE SAVING EQUIPMENT -SAVE ASSETTS =SAVE PEOPLES LIVES -SAVE EGO -2 TYPES WE MANUFACTURED -A) MANUAL CONTROLLED -B) HYDRAULIC CONTROLLED -JUST 1 SECURITY GUARD IS ENOUGH TO CONTROLL THIS GATE -ONLY IMPORTANT BUILDING CHIEF SECURITY OFFICERS LETTER HEAD ENQUIRIES WILL BE ENTERTAINED -WE ARE THE ONLY 1 MANUFACTURER IN PAKISTAN & WE USE BEST SYSTEM TO EJECT & RELEASE THE SYSTEM –

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Readings readings readings….(Context only)

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Will I will never read fast enough?
How will I ever retain all I need to?

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“The Home Front” travelling horticultural experiments

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All this has to become work too…….

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Weddelia and Washingtonia in the front garden, October 2009.

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Luca, from our room to the Olive orchard.

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The Olive grove at alta Luca, Tuscan hills.

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Unripe Ginko Biloba Seeds from near Cuvrystrasse, Berlin.
Prior to planting. None have sprouted in three months.

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The vegetable garden and wormery on my return from Europe.
Almost everything is dead.

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How the Tuscan Olive cuttings were at the begining, August 2009.
-three months later only one is still green.

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Thuja orinetalis From near Camp Darby, Tuscany.

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More unripe Ginko nuts

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The summer’s seed gleanings

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Stop Camp Darby.
Outside Pisa Botanical Garden.
Camp Darby is a 2500 acre US munitions dump in the Tuscan countryside between Luca and Pisa.

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Congolese Avocado’s

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Cat and slug proofing the Ruccola seedlings, moth balls and slug-bait.

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Tuscan Olive cuttings

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Tuscan olive cuttings

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Pots at Lahore nursery.

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Lahore City (Context) September 2009

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“Main Boulevard September 2009”
Sony HD Handycam

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“Dream Flowers” (Context images)

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“Roti Home” (Work)

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How to make work from incidental encounters such as this?
Old roti’s being stored in a disused bird-cage on top of a broken dolls push-chair.
I’m going to set it up on a plinth under studio lights and see what happens.
Maybe track around it with a video camera. recently got a Nikon 35mm adapter for the XL-1.

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Urban Trees-ongoing (Work)

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I’ve been thinking about a work entitled “The Beautiful Painted trees of Pakistan”
It might be in the form of an English explorer’s portfolio of water-coloured botanical illustrations, maybe in miniature on wasli. Perhaps a combination of text, printed image and hand-work.

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However the urban tree here faces many more challenges besides paint.

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Tree that don’t sleep.
Constant light will eventually kill any plant.

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