Blog post by Barbara Confino – in Berlin; Saturday, Feb. 01, 2014.
Artist and writer Barbara Confino’s new series, WalkAbout: the World as Image, Imagination, and Idea is a leisurely inquiry into the interplay between the real and the fantastic…[read on…]
Blog post by Barbara Confino – in Berlin; Sunday, Dec. 22, 2013.
Artist and writer Barbara Confino’s new series, WalkAbout: the World as Image, Imagination, and Idea is a leisurely inquiry into the interplay between the real and the fantastic…[read on…]
Blog post by Barbara Confino – in Berlin; Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013.
Artist and writer Barbara Confino’s new series, WalkAbout: the World as Image, Imagination, and Idea is a leisurely inquiry into the interplay between the real and the fantastic…[read on…]
Blog images and text by Barbara Confino – in New York; Wednesday, Sep. 25, 2013.
Artist and writer Barbara Confino’s new series, Walkabout: The World As Image, explores life as a visual experience. Functioning as both cameraman and editor, the walker sees the physical and human environment as if it were a film in the making with its connections…[read on…]
Text and images by Barbara Confino – in Berlin; Wednesday, Jul. 24, 2013.
Artist and writer Barbara Confino‘s new series, Walkabout: The City As Image, explores urban life as a visual experience. Functioning as both cameraman and editor, the walker sees the physical and human environment as if it were a film in the making…[read on…]
Blog post and photographs by Barbara Confino – in New York; Wednesday, May 15, 2013
What drove me there was loneliness. I knew no one in this far away neighborhood. My new place had effectively exiled me from friends who were more centrally located, and since I typically worked alone all day, I was hungry for…[read on…]
Blog post and photographs by Barbara Confino – in New York; Thursday, Mar. 21, 2013
WalkAbout: the World as Image, Imagination, and Idea is a new series by artist and writer Barbara Confino’s. A leisurely inquiry into the interplay between the real and the fantastic, each WalkAbout takes place at the crossroads between the mind and the world at large.[read on…]
Article by Barbara Confino – in New York; Friday, Feb. 22, 2013.
Together with Dada, Surrealism (and they really are two acts of the same play) was the most inventive of modern movements. An overwhelming number of contemporary practices and attitudes can be traced back to them. Most fundamentally they are responsible for a paradigmatic shift in the definition of the artist. From a craftsman practicing a hard won skill, the artist became…[read on…]
Blog post and photographs by Barbara Confino – in New York; Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013
On a dark day in infinity the Universe imagined itself into existence, arriving barely bigger than a dot. From nothing it blew itself up into a gigantic, oddly shaped balloon in which small groups of dissatisfied gases clung…[read on…]
