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This my last post before the Degree assessment and show. Throughout this blog, as I have explored The Patriarchal Society, I have followed the views of the media and press on matters that concern the abuse and control of women. […]
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These will be my last few posts as my piece is almost ready for assessment. I feel pleased that it has worked out how I envisaged it, with a few minor alterations. Rather than 90 prints there are now 96. […]
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Wow what a day! As William and I arrived at 8.30 am at Uni we saw the enormous delivery truck from Ipswich Plastics waiting by the woodwork studio… We took the four acrylic sheets upstairs and spent a long time […]
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I am reminded of another poem by W.B.Yeats The Second Coming Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed […]
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My degree project is coming together: 1. I have decided on how I will use the space. 2. I have sorted out the covering – acrylic and ordered and paid for it, arranging delivery for Friday 30 May. Today I […]
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Every day in the news there is something that just reinforces what a shocking Patriarchal world we live in. The latest horror story is from the Sudan where a woman – who is a doctor and eight months pregnant, has […]
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This morning first thing I rang Ipswich Plastics to get a price for Acrylic, but I still was quoted about £500 for the pieces I need so I persuaded William to come with me and see what cheaper products they […]
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The Newspapers are full of boko haram, ( they do not deserve capital letters), and their shocking arrogant admission about kidnapping over 200 girls and casually saying it is their right to sell them as slaves. Hopefully they have over […]
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The Degree show looms. I have decided that I am just showing my 90 pieces and also a book of prints of The Patriarchal Society. So, now I am working on the book and it is time consuming! I think […]
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I have finished printing my 90 flowers! Some of these I printed onto wet Somerset paper and some onto dry. Where the paper was dry I also splattered water so it made the silkscreen inks bleed and this effect was […]
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Some things don’t go away. If someone is hurt and humiliated and their feelings not sufficiently acknowleged, they either turn away in anger – leave the course – or fight so something similar doesn’t happen again to another student. This […]
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As I look over my blog to date, I realise I haven’t talked much about my methods of printing. A technique I like to use is the open screen method where I paint onto the screen and then use a […]