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The woods are only in my head…
After a time thinking about the materials, and how they relate to each other, and how it affects my making, I find myself again thinking about concept, and metaphor. I found this paragraph in A Thousand Plateaus (Deleuze and Guattari […]
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Layers and lines…
Layers and lines From a purely visual, aesthetic standpoint I’m happy with how the work looks. I like the forms and lines, the wrapped lines and the drawn lines. I like the grouping and the spacing. I like the soft, […]
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Being noisy…
The crisis of confidence is dissipating, and now I have actually hung it in the gallery I am quite pleased with how it all relates. It was an awkward, bitty place to install work, windows and doors, pillars and other […]
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Hope from unexpected places…
I had resigned myself to the fact there was too much else going on in my life to actually start making anything new. But it seems that my back-burner of a brain had other ideas… I’ve been doing the course […]
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Brain clearing…
It would be nice to think, wouldn’t it, that an art-life carries on regardless? But it doesn’t. The art-brain continues , but very much on the back-burner, essentials only, when other things get in the way. The building work started […]
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Input/Output
Input/Output The last few weeks it seems to me there’s been far too much input, and very little output. I am one step closer to the knee replacement, but I am still waiting to hear a date, but it could […]
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Hitherto and Henceforth…
Well… it has taken me a while but I think I’ve got a bit more of a grip on things! I spent yesterday in the studio, heater on, lights on all day, scarf and studio cardi wrapped round me, clearing […]
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Winter blues and dragging myself into the light…
It’s been a while since my last post, primarily because of the Christmas holiday. This seems ridiculous but I think I lost a month or maybe a bit more due to that, and a variety of family events and […]
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Review of 2024: Preview of 2025
This has become a useful habit I think, looking back over the year and thinking about what has worked and what hasn’t. Then making sure my plans follow that through. Compared to other years, I think I have done […]
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Nourishment
I always reread my last post before writing the next because sometimes the same things are washing around my head and I want to write with continuity rather than repetition. I think Christmas, and these very short winters days […]
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Rootlessness and connection…
“Can the unsettling feelings of rootlessness be conveyed through the subversion of traditional observational drawings?” I asked this question earlier this year, and it’s written on a bit of paper pinned to my studio wall. Alongside the phrase “Assembled Utterances” […]
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Thought and material processing…
Over the last few days I have recognised that I am at another one of those points on the mountain where I can take a seat, look at the view and reassess where I am and where I go next. […]