I have just finished my Q4 accounts and sent them off to the accountant, which is a huge relief. Now I have to attack the piles of paper on my ‘relief desk’ which the cats use as bedding along with the laptop.
Spent the day in Calais on Friday as DAD is hoping to take part in an interreg project which could be an opportunity to screen Watermark, our documentary feature, in France. DAD has incidentally been shortlisted for the Canterbury Culture Award for Excellence for “a cultural practitioner or collaborative group of practitioners working in East Kent that has created a new work of high quality within the last twelve months.”
Managed also to get into the studio yesterday and do some work on the new drawing. My new artist neighbour turned up too which was great.
Read an interesting article about the brain in the Guardian, from which this comes:
“In Citizen Kane, the name of the protagonist’s childhood sledge, “Rosebud”, had enormous significance for him. Even if a transplant were physically possible, and a brain with such memories could be transferred to another individual, this word would mean nothing to the recipient because the brain works only in cahoots with the organs: the neural pathways would involve the nerves and muscles that were implicated in the protagonist’s particular reason for memorialising that word. Similarly, the recipient’s functioning store of knowledge and memories would find no pathways in the new organ; even if the brain were able to maintain the automatic processes, it would be a blank slate with no hope of making new meaningful connections. The way information is coded in the brain can only be deciphered by that particular brain.” http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/apr/13/mind…
The most interesting thing for me is the idea that the “brain works only in cahoots with the organs“. More evidence if any were needed that society has to stop categorising thinking and knowledge as rational and irrational, head and “heart”, science and arts; if knowledge generated through art practice was really one day put on a par with scientific knowledge, that really would be radical.
