The Big Draw at the artsdepot has been and gone and all in all it was a good experience. After some initial technical problems installing the work it was a successful and very busy day. Dozens of children visited the space and drew in relation to the shadows that had been cast on the floor, I have kept some of these to work with – others went home with the children.
I am happy to say that the work is going to be installed at artsdepot when complete for a minimum of six months. I still have the third section to complete which is going to be based around notions of mapping in the future, considering the increasing use of GPS and the inevitable decline of paper maps. I went to Queen Elizabeths Boys School in Barnet to talk to them about the project, and from that discussion the idea of mapping social networks arose. This has led me to think about using a current map of the Borough to track the places I have visited and the people I have approached in relation to the developing work and the artsdepot and then start to link them using nodes and vectors. This will hopefully produce an open-looking network which is defined by the boundary line of the borough, and an interesting object from which to build up the final section of the work.
Giving myself a short break from this project – enough time to regain feeling in my cutting/index finger perhaps. One piece installed at Middlesex University along with the work of other artists in residence, Gaea Todd, Katharine Dowson, Gabriella Sancis and Cornelia O’Donovan.
