Random Inspirations
Peter and his knowledge of machines
Old photos (he has worked at The Engineerium for 30 years)
Archives East Sussex Archives’ Ledgers, diaries 1876-1900’s for their imagery and Victorian turn of phrase.
Ham Baker and Co catalogue, makers of waterworks machinery.
Russian Theatre especially Shepyanov’s ‘My Friend’ 1932
The Art of the Engineer beautifully exact
Paolozzi , early collages
Charlie Chaplin (Modern Times)
Union Carbide Silicones, adverts drawing on photos (Fortune Magazine, 1950)
‘Promptitude’ a pub sign I saw walking home. I’ve never noticed it before.
I’m reflecting on all my interests that, through working habits and getting trapped in a certain process, have stopped finding their way into the final work- writing, forging links and threads, photography,design.
A need to create last week, after being encircled by ever changing mind maps, saw me drawing machines on sheet metal. It provided a lesson in exactitude! and a reminder of Victorian precision! Not to mention how long it is since I’ve worked on a finely detailed still life. Now I’m trying to draw like a machine. At the same time I’m mechanically moving round and reordering the images and material I’ve collected to find that heart.
