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Another busy day and late night today.

I have managed to do some work which I’m not sure about it but at least I have tried to create something new from scratch.

Today I bought around 2200 Minky multipurpose cloths in yellow, pink, blue and green. I have now have 46 packets with 50 cloths in each packet. The pressure is on now because I kind of have to do something with them!!

I had in my mind this idea of building a house with the packets but 46 packets are not enough, I will have to have like 200 packets and that is crazy and EXPENSIVE…

Having had the scholarship has been amazing, to be able to buy things as I needed them is such a luxury but it can also makes you feel anxious as you want, or I want to make the most of this opportunity.

People in B&Q were just stunned by seeing my trolley full of coloured cloth and I had a nervous smile as I was thinking what the f*** you have just done!!!????

I still have the receipt and I have told them that I might come back for a refund if I don’t use them.

Now with degree show approaching I can’t stop thinking what to do, should I sew, should I use objects… ???

I needed to make today like crazy. I have been the whole Easter break, either looking after my daughter, doing things at home or writing this blog and draft. I got late to the studio and I only was able to work until 4.30pm.

I have used the cloths, the laundry baskets that I bought in Asda (and I nearly bought the whole lot), some ice creams spoons that I was given by the some classmates in sculpture and stuffing.

I keep remembering of what Joana Vasconcelos said: to put things together is easy, they look pretty but what it is important is to have an idea and then get the material. I hope I was able to work like that! Or maybe I’m been lazy.

Must go to bed because my eyes are closing… Need some rest now.

Anyway this is what I have done for the crit tomorrow, it is not finished just yet, got tomorrow between 9 and 11am. I hope the whole thing doesn’t look dull, or not too much.


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More drawings… same as before, illustrations of thoughts and feelings along the journey, studies for future sculptures and drawing from sculpture.

Must move on…


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I’m started to draw more but it is easy to let it in the side specially when there is so much to do!

I love drawing, it is the first mark on the paper from your thoughts, like illustrating what your eyes see in your mind in your imagination…

Must move on


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Some collages using the pictures from the buckets in previous post. Human figure and animals. Domestic identity. I seem to refer to animals constantly in my work. I represent mostly birds, chickens and cows… It is worth a little essay to see why I do this.

Just found this essay on THE PRESENCE OF ANIMALS IN CONTEMPORARY ART AS A SIGN OF CULTURAL CHANGE, which seems worth a read, see link below:

http://www.upf.edu/forma/_pdf/vol6/Andersen_Animal…

Must go and get some work done for tomorrow!!!

More pictures tonight.


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Very briefly…

Repetition, playfulness, arrangements, compositional, geommetrical, study for drawings, colour composition, perspective and patterns.

As I still need to catch up and move on.

I sent my dissertation “draft” last night, not really a draft but only some ideas, titles and chapter headings. I think my subject is very broad and I need to narrow things down. These are some titles which are really the same thing.

Turning Life Inside Out. The Carnival Effects in Visual Art

The Carnivalesque as a Medium for Communication in Society.

Universal Free Spirits

A Survey in the Carnivalesque and the Visual Arts

Life Without a Mask,

A Survey on the Importance of the Carnival Principle in Modern Society and in Contemporary Visual Art.

Art As a Celebration of Life,

A Survey on the Carnivalesque and the Grotesque in Contemporary Visual Art.

I hope that with the help of my tutors they will be able to direct me in the right direction.

For now I now need to focus on making work. I forgot that I have a crit tomorrow and I need to make some work today! I must be quick and clever. I’m going to take loads of fabrics from last year so I hope this will help me to get started.

Will post a picture of what I manage to do!

Go go go Mercedes!


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