It’s not about the work / by Justin Harrison


I've been learning how to work when time isn’t abundant, where and when are my most fertile times.

How to document them. Drawing works, it gives me pleasure and genuinely gives a few for what it might look like.

It’s not about the work, but how I work.

I wrestle, I contemplate, Inscrutinise, I intuit. Sometimes I just make.

Distracting myself or being sat on the tube and just writing. Ways to distract and lighten the process, seem to help my brain.

Also considering names, following a chat with Jonathan around the show, that in the naming can help lead viewers into the work.

Whether Poles
Deep Compass
Passage Sextant
Whenwhere

These don’t quiet feel right and I need to figure a name for each piece I think….although I like the idea of wrestling with evocative names