Things I have bubbling away, in no particular order, these are
- Text invading physical world & the physical world invading the textual world:
Text invading garden at The Print Shed
Blog to song…link to Tim Dallings recording of my words.
Text on hands – John Dinnen’s and my own.
Using the #Portrait: TACHBROOK test photos I took in Abergavenny in textual and physical exploration.
- Mobile library performance
Text into movement, first video of my movements while reading done in March 2015, not shown on blog to date. In my year review I’ll be tracing my work on this since its inception in images, video and writing as I’d like to see the evolution of my thinking.
I am currently writing a short piece on the ideas behind the work.
- 254 paintings – currently on hold, awaiting funds from new job to buy more paint and canvas. Plus 254 words on autocue and video, recorded in spring last year, shown in September at The Print Shed.
- Scratch-card poem. Return to the pavement somehow? What I’ve done until now with it. Recording of found scratch-cards and pennies in log.
- Magna Carta Framework group project, it needs to get out and be shown!
- Drawing where I am. Screen-print these? Feeling these are my connection to physical world, these could help explore the physical-textual worlds overlap. Text could invade these drawings to differing extents. Subtle inquiry.
- Recording reading progress in spread sheet of book 1040 pages.
- Aborted recording of time spent doing physical and textual things. (Was attempting to record this over a week)
To support ‘flow’:
Overview of past year (meant to do it Midwinter, but got waylaid!)
See some exhibitions/shows soon (not managed to venture out and see any since the Midwinter break)
Exhibitions to get work out there
A place to store old work out of the way. Don’t want to chuck it out, but only want to show work done in past year. (Keeping sense of momentum in work is vital)
I am currently doing a review of the past 13 months, and considering how can I change how I use my time reflecting so I focus less on the details and look from a more objective point of view at my own work? I would like to develop my judgement and for this I need experience, but exactly what experience I am unclear! Also, gaining better judgement might seem quite vague yet I am certain it is worth developing for me. Ad Reinhardt from ‘Twelve Rules for a New Academy (taken a little out of context):
“Study ten thousand paintings and walk ten thousand miles.”
Now, that would be an experience, I can walk miles here, but paintings are harder to come by, they are often hidden in homes and business’ around South Wales! But, seriously, I must find a way of ensuring I see more contemporary art as part of my ongoing development. I have a feeling I said the same thing this time last year……
