Woke up at 3
PM!!!
Anyway despite that I decided as I’d done 36 hours work I’d not punish myself and I’d just push on with what remained of the day.
Yesterday’s mid phase review was certainly revealing. I’m looking at such a huge subject and my range of interests are so wide there was concern that I was not focused enough on one thing and my line of enquiry would not go deep enough.
To me everything I do is about making paper. Gathering, analysing, synthesising, processing and presenting and I execute these stages in the most creative way I can. But it throws up a lot of questions – a lot. Maybe to others it looks like I’m stabbing in the dark but these decisions are deliberate and relate back to what I have learned through my personal experience of the world and everything comes back to paper.
Paper is a medium, a document a catalyst, a message, a creative act, it transforms for the better or worse, it travels, it is solid in a semi transparent world, it holds value, it proves, it also us to share information and ideas, it sorts us into groups of accepted and rejected, it covers up temporarily, it can be destroyed easily, it is domestic, it is bureaucracy, it is white, it is empty, it is made in bulk by machines, it is hand made and when I use it to make art it can say all of these things depending how you read it.
