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Just got focused and it’s good.

Ideas buzzed around my head til the early hours of this morning and I finally had to get up at 2am to get them on paper. I’ve come up with a really exciting piece of work that I think will say the things i want it to say and be clear, uncluttered and refined.

Before I start I have one, sorry two sideline projects. Instead of trying to dedicate a few hours to everything I’m working on one thing at a time and trying not to allow outside interruptions to distract me. They will be out of the way by 20th March and from then it will all be about this new work.

I’m far too tired now to do anything more today.


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what a day, non- stop information from 10am til 6pm – now I just need to process it all.

Some things of note; antiquarian avant garde’ believing we can go forward by going back

‘always bother’ Justin Quinell

Catherine Falkner

www.kathrynfaulkner.com

Monzoni’s shit and Chris Townsends Art and Death

also theory can be fun if you like

do you have an opinion? yes but backing it up and making that argument – work needs to be done on this.

This morning I tried to write something about the gaps between my act of painting paper on the floor with my hair in an attempt to re-enact Janine Antoni’s Loving Care but just got totally stuck whilst trying to find out more about the original work.

Lisa’s opinion is that her work was bourgeois and mine was grunge, both a protest, mine a result of my circumstances, hers hers I’m guessing.

Also later in the day we got into a peer critique and we identified that what you say about your work is as much a part of the work as creating it, and it’s easy to get it wrong.

And I’m floundering in to gazillions of options I am faced with at the moment. I can’t focus, I’m so distracted by so many things:

time

document

paper

power

oppression

body

value

destruction

transformation

authorship and who makes the work

experience

and these things are just so broad – I need a plan. Where do I start?

I think write it all down and cross out the crap.


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