17th Nov. Now on last leg of the RESIDER/RESIDE project and am feeling more than ready to get the last lot of work installed and firing on all cylinders. Almost everything is ready but am a little nervous about how it is going to work in the space. I really wish I could do something simple for once – the days when I just packed the car with paintings and delivered them somewhere or hung them somewhere seem long gone … now it’s all electric cables, mirrors, blacking things out, mirror balls, everything but the kitchen sink !
In terms of the headspace to develop ideas and links this has been a great project especially trying to push the thinking into a tangible shape and form and juggling ideas about history and place, war and culture, belonging and not belonging – and how its all fits together has been and will continue to be a very exciting avenue of research.
So on Saturday I will do a photo tour of Dover seeking out interesting builidngs and architecture. The thoughts behind this reflect an interest in our ongoing obsession with clear visual fields, high definition images and I want to explore all the opposite apsects of this slippery but clearly delineated world – shadows, ambiguity and the palpably undefined.
