Wednesday 18th
Spend a few hours first thing updating this blog: Then head to London via 'Hove' to meet with Stevie Director of DaDa South (DS), Sign Dance Collective (SDC), an Artist (whose project it is) and the National Arts Development Manager of Mencap about a prospective 'sound' collaboration for an 'intervention'. Project sounds very interesting and respect and enjoy working with SDC and DS so throw my lot in with them. As an access enablement for David B from SDC a small 'acid yellow' figure was used. Whoever held the figure was entitled to speak so he could follow who was speaking one at a time by lip reading.
Aaaarhg yellow! Don't touch yellow (Aspergers thang!)
Devil drives a yellow car: I bullied myself into painting this (with covered and prepared books) last year at a solo ahow about 'abuse' (violently ill while painting it), revisited it this year at 1st Disability arts open at Holton Lee, along with 'my school pen'and won the Judges prize.
Compelled to 'keep quiet' till could hold it in no longer and asked for the 'figure' to be put on my paper pad, one finished it was 'flicked' it to next person to speak. Ended up being quite amusing diffusing the unease i felt at the 'yellowness' (Aspergers goes hand in hand with synaesthesia, and mine certain colours i 'feel' and 'taste' yellow creating a foul fungus taste and fear. Complicated my work as an illustrator for a long time, maybe thats why i prefer B/W. Can get very complicated. Read 'curious tale of dog in the night time' and you will understand)
Headed to London Bridge but had difficulty reading the train info to get back and had never been through there before and it was very busy so headed to Victoria which i Know well and like. Trip back on train interesting and quite surreal. A very young child a few seats away spent most of the journey pointing and shouting at a woman in the seat behind calling her a 'bagel'. Luckily she was asleep and i still cannot see the connection? Very DADA. Gave me time to note down the locations and ideas i had seen for artwork at Victoria and other stations on the way.
In late, tired and i have to be in London again tomorrow.
