Edwina has sent me an image of one of the possible sites for my installation / performance (see right). Every glimpse that i get of Finland is precious because i have no idea what the landscape is going to be like. I imagine the colours to be muted, and for there to be strong lines – this picture would confirm that theory. It could just be that i seek out muted linear sites and there are plenty of other things going on around me, just i don’t notice them. Im excited about this site, with its non-colour and utilitarian aesthetic. I wonder what i will do there…?
This is beginning to feel real now.
My application was also accepted to take part in the “Urban Spaces” workshop led by Lisa Torell, an Artist from Sweden who asks her workshop participants to consider “in between places” that are often overlooked, such as footpaths or overgrown verges. This workshop is part of the Art Week and will act as a useful catalyst i think in producing my own installations, i am also very much looking forward to working with a group of people that i don’t know yet, to make art up against a time limit, and have meetings and crits. It will be like those tentative first weeks of Art School all over again where everybody is very sensitive and excited at the same time.
