I still haven’t tidied the studio. Working on concluding various pieces I’ve started. Theres a mess of clamps and indigo stain on my bench. An evolution of this new from that’s been appearing in my drawings and play.
As ever I have fallen for a material, well a colour this time - this deep midnight of a colour that speaks to me in words made of water
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Another impromptu piece the peg and wood veneers - which has been assigned the loose working title of ‘passport’. I really need to try and find more titles for the work I plan to show. Also define what other pieces I want to show in the exhibition. How do I pull my audience into this ‘Lore’ the place of passage? Without being condescending or too directive? I find it interesting and odd that again language as such a strong role to play in visual art work, but then it’s my visual artwork and perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising.
I wish I had more time to pull together all the snips of thoughts and theory that have been occurring as I work, I know that the Blog curation helps but I feel Like I still have littered all over my sketchbooks and notes and digital notes a host of thoughts that would benefit from being processed.
Then there are two round forms made up of rectangles that references the bundle drawings I have been making they are an echo or development of that and also if I can sort the clay drawing - ‘Summoning’ on the wall then a reference to that too. All comprised of smaller parts - rectangle blocks. (Everything is divisible).
They feel like some form of navigational device, a compass or sextant. Those terms don’t quiet feel right, but something akin to that.
I do worry that my work is old fashioned - constructed in wood and stain and metal. Everyone else seems to be using AI or film, where does that leave this work? What is the significance of what I am doing making? But then I am learning to make because its in me, that I can worry about galleries and collectors I I want. But that derails the work, the research and forms quiet a different practice. Doing this MA has taught me that. The work that flows from me is genuinely my own and creative. Free. And perhaps has more value.