Marion Michell‘s blog Sleep Drunk I Dance has taken the top spot once again for the fifth consecutive month in our Artists talking top ten. During April her blog attracted 1,878 page views, with the average reader spending 13:32 minutes on her page during this period. This resulted in a score of 1,524,936, which is worked out by multiplying the number of page views by the time in seconds spent on the page.
A thorough and industrious blogger, Michell has recently posted about her ongoing work produced on and around the 12th anniversary of her father’s death. She writes: ‘I only encounter my dad’s young self through photographs, and yet over the last few months the face I knew directly has been overlaid with the one in the images I study, so that, when I happened to look at a portrait taken a few years before he died, I was surprised to find him old.
‘Last week I stitched into (a copy of) a photo I’ve used previously (posts #90+95) which shows him as a PoW. The idea was to explore suspending a photograph from something mounted inside the picture. When I took quick snaps I was intrigued by the results. The original object is small (5×7”), but here a different sense of scale and spatial dimensions emerged, as well as aspects of drawing. I’ve ordered prints and will choose a few to stitch into again.
‘I find some of these thread-drawings quite beautiful, in a melancholy way. This pleases and (of course?) worries me. But maybe that question in itself is interesting: am I allowed beauty in this context?’
Elsewhere, there’s a new entry at number 4 courtesy of Restart, a blog by Simon Fell, followed by University Campus Suffolk by Jason Haye at number 5, A Death in the Family by Nick Kaplony at number 7, and at number 10 The Artistic Urge from Prehistory to Present by Niki Dennis.
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