I don’t think we have talked about ground rules either; it didn’t occur to me that we’d need to. In fact we didn’t really discuss how we would approach this thing at all. But I think a bit of trial and error is okay, we’ll soon get into the flow of it.
Last bit of background info from me:
When this thing started I thought we might be looking at the collaboration based on something medical. It was all very vague because we couldn’t commit to anything until later this year or even into next year sometime. I don’t have any sort of medical background but I often refer to microscopic images and the idea seemed to be that we would ‘maybe’ pick a medical subject and find a way of exploring it in an artistic manner. But that’s as far as we got really.
Because it was going to be so far in the future we just chatted, discussed our practices, looked at other artists work and eventually told each other a little about ourselves. The project itself was no longer the main focus in our emails; it just simmered away in the background.
And somewhere along the way the idea of the project has become something else… not sure what…
This way of ‘working’ is very different for me, I’m not sketching or making, the emails are my only evidence of research, note taking and the forming of ideas. I generally use my blogs to refer back too when revisiting project ideas etc so I’m hoping I can unjumble the emails when I need them. The blog is going to be a useful tool for me and in that respect I am relieved now that we’ve taken the plunge.
Julie
