Missed my Friday deadline due to dissertation angst. Now on the cusp of completion, just bibliography and images to go….I am writing on Bill Viola’ The Passions series, particularly interested in the kind of spiritual transformation he seems to be wanting his work to give people. I have called these ‘sacramental experiences’ as people are more ready to experience the transcendent in an art gallery now than in churches. Discuss.
Have found a source of scaffolding for large body cast…the studio technician had some in his cupboard, now I am searching for clamps to hold them together safely so I can cast a man in wet cloth. Also the idea of ‘searching for the lost Garden of Eden’ has been percolating – and the thought that I might try to grow grass seed inside some of my body casts, as a link to that lost place. I think there is a feeling of searching everywhere we look today – combined with the promise of something better, esp in advertising which capitalises on it.
Also Husband and I much preoccupied with trying to establish a community smallholding in our area of Sheffield – crops, chickens, fruit trees, an outdoor classroom and most definitely a pizza oven, all in an acre of pasture….
Now…back to the grind.
