Vision and more vision this week. My focus has increased and I feel that I’m making things happen (with great phsyical/mental effort!). The lampshades have finally arrived to a pleasure point where I’m happy with what I see and what I feel about it. It was pure luck? about finding the last two lampshades that complete the sculpture.
I have been wondering what means to be lucky these days? Do we pursue luck? Is it just “luck”? Or does luck comes from taking risks? The more risks you take the more chances you have to find luck? Like playing the lottery? I guess when I think the way I met my partner that has to define what luck is and all it was is, that I took a risk and got off the bus and went back to find him, walking backwards towards where I saw him first in the bus. Yes, I’m happy with that definination, it suits all I do.
Carnaval, 2013 has now another title which is “La mujerzuela (The Floozy)”. This work feels very right to the way I want to envisage my progress throughout my MA, it has a high standard for me and I hope this is just the beginning of a lot of new work. I definately feel like taking risks at the moment and making work to higher level.
La mujerzuela (The Floozy), a woman (to me), older perhaps, that has had a lot of life behind her, she is very wise and practically doesn’t care about anything anymore. She has thick skin, she has learned to put things in her back and move on, she kind of feels free about everything she does. She wants to be herself, she wants to be silly. She spends the day cruising around the house dreaming, with her pretty pink and cream feathery nightie on, with ambiente lights around the house and soft music, reading love letters from past and present lovers, imagining the lovers of tomorrow… Melancholy in its pure state flows around the house.
I guess when I look at this work it makes me think about women and about growing older, and cherishing your own self. It is about escaping from social prejudices, about pressures of being right all the time, about maintining your shape, about being in control, it is a bit of mockery about all these things. It is about relaxing and letting yourself go, in yourself and then to the world, about growing older and embracing every stage of it… about becoming more wiser, that’s it. It poses to me, a question for the future.
I have sent this piece to the MA & Other Postgraduates open call for the 2014 exhibition next Feb-March. I feel positive about it and I hope I will get a good response from the Atkinson Gallery, which it is where the exhibition will be hold.
Already on my pocket, Saatchi Gallery has approved this piece to be shown in their selected works reel show upstairs in their second floor, so it should be among other artworks from last nigh until further notice. Nice of Saatchi to do that.
And a lot more has been happening that I would love to write about it, but I have to keep moving. Only to say, regarding the kinetic progress, Richard Taylor, that I just bought a few Christmas motion toys from Homebase that I hope to strip down and re do some new weird costumes/characters myself. I will show you soon.
Happy Tuesday all.
