According to Froebel: “to give the child a ball to play with is to guard himself against ill-humour and all the moral evils of which it is the root. It also protects him from his own desires and passions…”
PARALLEL BLOGS Earlier this year Sharon Haward and I (along with 10 other artists) made new work in response to the Redoubt Fortress, Eastbourne. It was a great location and I think we both loved working there. It made me […]
spent the day editing video of the shoots this week. Trying to take my voice out of the sound track, and then impprting it into after effects to get the size, the levels. It taken ages, but i have done […]
The broadband is dicky, much has happened and I haven’t been able to record it. But here’s yesterday’s sequence of events. First thing, Tom bailed. Slipped away in the night with his whiffle hurling bats. Everyone very sad. Massage vouchers, […]
Half past ten, Saulius has arrived after giving blood this morning and Justin, Eero and Monica are dumpster diving downstairs. I go help them bring stuff up – hula hoops, a toy fire engine – a printer. Monica is beside […]
It’s always an interesting diversion to google yourself and see what comes up, what other Susan Francis’s are out there doing, living with the same name in some strange pararellel existance. I have many Susan Francis’s I like, the first […]
It turned out to be quite an amazing evening. A whirlwind of chatter! I think I spoke about my work for about 5 hours straight. In fact I got a rather lovely review, my very first one from Spoonfed. I […]
I have worked this weekend mostly on re-viewing, re-working, re-painting, and re- gilding. This is a tricky time for me, will the panel look as I have it in my head after all the processes have gone through, and sometimes […]
Getting quite excited now about the Exeter show. It will be interesting to see how that huge warehouse is transformed.
I haven’t seen an English newspaper for two months, since the 7th of June in fact. I don’t expect to see another until mid-September. I get the gist of what’s going on in the world through the BBC news page […]
Its been a really busy time – today is Friday, the 6th Day of the residency. I have a fantastic time yesterday with Gordon – working through ideas, playing, experimenting. Gordon is a great person to discuss ideas with and […]
Trying to get the timings worked out for this residency has been consuming…when will things be finished by? Natacha and Michael don’t really know. I am trying to push things back, but still trying to push things ahead. Now that […]
Elaine asked if I needed showing how to turn on/set up the projector for Teresa and Dominique. I said it’s OK, you did it. Elaine laughed. I didn’t mean…… It seems that my comment is negative but that’s not the […]
We have the pixy screen working and my first thought is that is looks great. This is exciting. Karl has arrived. We are putting a black background up. I am going to look at the ratios of the video. Re […]
My current work is exploring the concept of refuge, and with it, personal peace. In this piece ‘All the Houses in the Street’ I aim to infer some of the complexities around refuge and in particular, the search for personal […]
There was a much needed return from injury for Colne’s number one player. He practically snuffed out every attacking opportunity that the Athletico outfit made. The Athletican boss was very unhappy with a last minute penalty appeal…Olby are said to […]
YIKES- LESS THAN ONE WEEK LEFT!!! Time has gone very slowly this week, yet at the same time it has crept up on me. I feel that because I leave on Thursday I should really be making very good use […]
Well, i’ve arrived in the countryside after 3 and a half hot hours in the car… wading through the boxes that have taken over my old bedroom in my parents house, i came across a “Book of Knowledge” something i […]
In the afternoon we had a session discussion about the next screen. Its all running behind schedule – but now we get to see what does and doesn’t work with the screen. I like the volumetric part of the screen […]
Oops – ‘Exeter show’ is rather cryptic I realise. In response to Susan’s comment the show is called Polytek and I’ve posted it on Interface. It is at Water Lane, Exeter EX2 8BZ and the opening is on 29 August […]
I talked to Jeff Mann today in regards to the screens we are building with Gordon Brand. Jeff is based in Berlin. He is an artist who developed a lot of work around machines, society, technology – more sculptural machines. […]
Over the Lighthouse Residency, an aim is to work on two more sculptural versions of Chameleon Prototype 08. We are also working with Kim Byers and Nadia Berthouze from the HCI lab at UCL to test how people are responding […]
