Month: December 2017

My “SYCAMAPQ” poem

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Sure You Can Ask Me A Personal Question…
By Konrad Morgan Lehmann

Sure you can ask me a personal question.
Yeah actually I did move here a couple years ago,
Yes, from England and Yes from London.
No I’m not lying I’ve just lost my accent now.

Sure I can go back to my accent from before,
No, I can’t be bothered to say that in an English accent
Don’t ask me again.
Trust me I’m not lying.

Yes I drink tea,
Yes I love cottage pie,
And crumpets, and scones.
But not all English people do,
And no, not lying.

No I don’t like cricket,
And I don’t play rugby.
Yeah I play football,
The real football, that is.
But no, I wouldn’t lie.

Yes I’m an immigrant,
No, not illegal. And actually no one is illegal
Did you mean undocumented?

And yes I’m also German,
Yes I can speak it fluently.
I can’t be bothered to say that in German
No trust me; I’m not lying.

Yes I have family in Germany,
And quite a lot.
No, not I’m not related that man,
He was actually Austrian.
No, I’m not lying.

Yes I like sausage,
Of course I don’t drink beer,
But I couldn’t be bothered to go through this again,
Especially not in German or in an English accent–
And no, I’m not lying.

Inspired by Diane Burns

Photoshop Project

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In this project, I have taken the Allianz Arena, the Bayern Münich stadium, and placed many different “things” inside. For example, I have a person tightrope walking over the open roof of the stadium leaning a little back. Then, there are two men walking along the stadium. One of the has been given a Darth Vader mask from star wars with the other looking at him. Then I have Cristiano Ronaldo doing his signature celebration on the empty soccer field. Another addon is Robert Lewandowski doing his signature celebration on the screen at the top right of the photo. The contrast in the piece is how the player and people have been placed into the picture with the right lighting, and the emphasis is how they stand out, especially Ronaldo in the corner in the shadow. Another part of the project is the proportion and balance of how the humans in the picture are the “to scale” size of what they would be in real life. Many of the people are also completing their rhythm and movement throughout the photo, one man is tightrope walking and the other is sliding and walking. The original photo itself has pattern and movement in that it relates to the space around it and the structure itself has many patterns.
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My Artist Statement

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Artist Statement
Activism Through Social Media

This monument is dedicated to the activism through social media. I wanted to do something showing the work of people’s voices on twitter, facebook, Instagram ect. due to the fact that they are sometimes overshadowed by the bad, and wrong things that are presented through social media. The monument design I have made are two large cylinders placed on the edge of a street. I wanted to have a piece showing some sort of live feed of activist tweets or posts being sent out at the time. I had the idea of the cylinders because of things I have seen in everyday life. I based these cylinders/poles off of the advertisement poles in Berlin, Germany that are presented in the same way but with advertisement going around it on a round electric board. I wanted it to be in a city like environment to show the multicultural idea of how these posts are designed and monitored in the same way. I originally wanted to have other objects such as the poles, based off of the Berlin advertisements, like a New york subway stop, an English telephone box, a Nigerian mailbox, a Chinese advertisement, and other culturally well known city objects to go around the original piece. This would show the multicultural side of the piece in how everyone affects the social media’s power. This piece is supposed to be easily accessible as it is an ordinary street corner, and I have many small figures placed to look as though they were looking up at the work as the moisture activism tweets go by. This is not a memorial to any passed thing but more a monument to ongoing things, so throughout one’s stay whilst observing the piece nothing is there to mourn anything. I want people to pay attention to the work and just read what they see.