Sharing with Rachael today and considering that not only is it important for the work to flow naturally, but the collaboration itself does too and it is, which is good. We have not had chance for many meetings, but it appears we are existing all the time in the back of each others minds about what we are thinking, doing, what the house is revealing. I like this part of the relationship, it feeds the creative process as both an individual and a joint work. We will be meeting next week to share developments and work so far.
For myself, as usual, it is a thinking, then working, more thinking, then more working process. I have not been up to Haden Hill House recently, I want my memories, the ‘absorbed’ to work for me. It is all part of what I do myself and their is an overlapping of ideas between that and this project. So far, I have been thinking about the cutting and mirrors, but I have gone away from the literal aspect of these ideas and tried to develop them a little. I have been using the reflections in a way that gives a time element, recording by photo the reflections and drawings then by way of process returning the reflection back to it’s correct orientation, but it is still the mirror of reality. I am using objects as a basis for drawings. For instance, to reflect the religious aspect of the family, I have made a small tryptich alter piece on which will sit drawings. I have also been playing with constructions.
Time does play a part in my work, not only light as I understood till now. My practice is moving slowly away from that of drawing only, I will ask what development this project thus far has brought for Rachael. Is there a conceptual element to my practice which at one time I would have rejected as an interest?
