Photos by Jim Jump, featuring Meirian Jump – MML manager & archivist, Professor Tom Buchanan and writer Jenny Rivarola.
Through An Artist’s Eye project has officially launched. I probably should have called this post BLAST OFF!
Ridiculously, as I sit here writing, the start to all the episodes of Thunderbirds I ever saw with my tiny son are replaying in my brain. Air punching and shrieking featured back then but (he’s eighteen now and) me and my trusty team barely raised a high five on the night of our launch due to the sheer exhaustion of it all. We should have gone full air punch and shrieks though – it was AMAZING.
I’m calling it instead, the eye fluttering finish post, because, well, photographs. Most of pics of me on the night feature the old eye flutter. Yes – that blurry eyes shut moment where you have paused to gather yourself while in mid flow. Don’t ask me why but that is me in nearly every shot! Fortunately it’s not all about me and there are some cracking shots of my wonderful colleagues in full eyes open and quite beautifully mellifluous flow.
The Marx Memorial Library is an extraordinary building and it was good to stand next to old Marx on the night – so good was my feeling about this place and it’s archive of Spanish Civil War material that I had a new idea. What?!
Yes – I did. SO watch this space.
For further events, including our exhibition please look HERE.
