Day 13
Oh dear, lots of information to add since my last posting, as is always the way, being in the process has been all consuming and the production, reflection and documentation sit side by side, my desire to summarise daily was taken over by being deep into the development of a clear direction for the work. The sense of panic eased four days ago when I realised that the voice of the people as a stand in for God was going to be very useful indeed. The consensus of opinion from the public was that as God, we should tell the people to ‘be kind’. I have taken this on board as my mantra, and I am finding it very hard indeed to be kind at all times. I am far from a saintly human being. I have also realised why I have been having so much trouble with the first rule “Love the extraordinaire”, it is, quite frankly, grammatically incorrect. Extraordinaire is both an adjective and a title, as in Chef Extraordinaire, Piss Artist Extraordinaire, therefore one cannot love it, that’s like saying love the brilliant, love the quickly. In conversation with fellow artists we observed that it is therefore the ‘the’ that is the focus of the love, and following this through that ‘the’ if accented (a slight cheat) becomes Thé. Love Thé Extraordinaire makes complete sense and is also true. I do indeed love thé.
With this realisation, the work has progressed at a swift rate and hence the absence of blogs.
I am creating acts of kindness for my audience in the shape of tea and cakes, extraordinaire, I am researching into tea ceremonies and information about the subject in order to generate material for a script. I am also learning to sugar model in order to create individual cakes for my audience. The work of fellow artists Tom and Katherina has been inspirational in their focus on the body, Katherina is skipping and hoola hooping, Tom is drawing images of the body onto fabric, and I am making cakes in the shape of explicit body parts.
