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  • first time working with a gelli plate
  • only had water based printing inks
  • foraged some leaves from the garden
  • assortment of paper.
  • before began felt nervous
  • during the process was in flow
  • at lunch i felt disappointed in what i saw
  • mid-afternoon worked into the prints some more
  • at the end felt nervous.
  • thoughts around images made through play having no historical references – the action of play being absolute in the moment. infers an isolation to what came before – art history.
  • the actions were out of the ordinary, for the sake of using the gelli plate for the first time.
  • no colour mixing
  • small amount of space to work.
  • need to research further the absolute moment nature of play with materials that newly combine into a state they stay within. as opposed to material that is arranged in the moment and subsequently taken apart.
  • ideas of how images of the moment of arrangement being drawn into the combined state (future play)
  • how to maintain the first time aspect when using again
  • how to maintain the isolation from art history.
  • try to understand through future sessions where the feeling of disappointment originated from.
  • why the nerves?
  • purity of the flow state – the absence of external influence and force.
  • were any rules adopted – no the – the flow was holistic
  • what could have been extended? more white paper.
  • what was the main learning today? how ever the ink   landed on the paper, in time that paper potentially was another print.
  • for me the play today was solitary. how might that be maintained while with other people?
  • a prompt was used to generate a draft proposal.
  • everything today was abstract, no trying to represent something already in existence – the play not having a end point defined at the start. the play was free.

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