2012 has arrived and I have come to the end of the Botanic Garden residency and blog. So this will be my blogging opportunity from now on as I begin to think and create in the New Year.
Over the Christmas break I went to the British Museum to see Grayson Perry’s Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman exhibition. I am thinking following the idea of ‘Future Archaeology’ involving ideas around water. What struck me about some pieces was the similarity of the work I had done in my first year (2009) on artefacts found in the future from an imaginary Anna Wintour cult, and his idea of artefacts resulting from an imaginary Alan Measles cult.
I have a vision of some person in the future finding artefacts in the sand. What could these be? How could they have been placed with a thought to being found in some distant future? or perhaps just left and buried by sandstorms?
Concrete came to mind as a material that would have longlasting properties. Experiments with 5cm cubes have begun…some came out a rather interesting blue…
