Jacques Nimki

invisible

May 30, 2007

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The worst thing about losing the camera was that I also lost all the pictures of my trip with artist Jacques Nimki. I had heard him over dinner the night before talking about making wine out of plants that he finds in the city. So – I said – your work is, like, about finding weeds and stuff and making things out of it?

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Well – he said – I like to take things from the landscape that people overlook. We tend to look at a place and there are things that we choose to see and things that we choose not to see and I work with the elements that we choose not to see. (but he said it better than that)

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I sort of thought my project was like that too. Here we were, talking about unsean elements of the landscape and we were inside it. By entering a disused or forgotten space we were becoming invisible to the outside world. And you really feel like it down there.

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These images – the drawings, are details from Jacque Nimki’s artwork. But he also does other things, like making that wine that I heard him talking about. He makes it out of things he finds in the city.

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And then when we were coming back he found something growing right out of the cement in the boat yard – Wild London Rocket. I had never even heard of it before.

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And it was delicious.

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