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After a few hours in deep contemplation about what not to do I aired my musings with the head of course today.

It has been difficult to decide on a direction for this research. When I started rummaging through the world library that presented itself at the beginning of the course I got a bit distracted by the exciting discoveries I was making. But it was all a bit jovial and playful. Not that there is anything wrong with that but I must remember I am enrolled at an institute and I must follow a course of research that will stretch me upwards rather than outwards.

I will cut off those strands which only dilute what I am trying to communicate. I will enrich my skills. Become knowledgeable and articulate on current fine art practice and bring in skills from the past that have been lost. I will start at the beginning, a new phase in my work. Fresh, clear and focused. I’m here to learn, and that’s what I will do.


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No art today, bought paint tho just cos it was 10p a tin.

Mainly shades of white I think I was going to make a pciture for my wall. Nothing to do with paper or any of my MA work; maybe with the new washing machine I’m getting all domestic.


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Tick tick tick tixk tixk tixk tixk, time rolls on.

just writing today and cleaning. Spoke to Benedict Phillips in the afternoon. He told me that I was the artist and that I should tell myself that.


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So today I discovered ‘Reading Marx’s Capital with David Harvey’.

I watched the 2hr intro and I’m hooked. Even better instead for forking out the cash for the book and struggling to read it I can actually down load mp3, and listen to it all whilst walking around.

Actually thats something I should think about, what I shall do while I listen to Capital as I’m sure it will affect whatever it is i am doing.

And it’s not only me who’s been discovering Capital. The Strategies for Free Education who have initiated the reading project are a group of artists in Sheffield who are attempting to study a Masters Degree without enrolling at an institute.

So I am very excited. :)

erm what else, applications for things is still ongoing – please let me get some funds from somewhere soon – please


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Today I came accross N.Dash in Modern Paintesr Dec 2010 – Jan 2010. ‘I don’t knit I destroy’ she says.

She manipulates paper or fabric in her pocket until it is destroyed and then displays photographs of the work.

I also looked at Manuel Vason again today who collaborates with performance artists

http://www.artcollaboration.co.uk/

I’m too tired to discuss but I wanted to note it.

Interestingly N.Dash doesn’t have anny images of her work online at all.


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