Went to the Herne Bay last Friday for the first time in my life to attend the Duchamp symposium:
Every speaker had the same small amount of material to go on and so each talk was like another layer of enquiry and speculation, adding up finally to a sense of what might have influenced the French artist during his stay in Herne Bay, such as e.g. the sash windows, the wasps at Reculver, the slot machines on the Arcade, sewing machines …
The symposium ended with Jeremy Millar’s film, Zugzwang, beautifully narrated in French by Pierre Huyghe.
On Monday I went round some of the Romney Marsh churches with fellow studio holder Kate Beaugie to research possibilities for a joint proposal for Art in Romney Marsh. By the end of the afternoon, I think we had identified the beginnings of something, so next step is to write the proposal.
I have also been experimenting with painting onto dibond. There are times when I feel I really don’t know what I am doing, that my work is too subjective, that there aren’t enough references to the outside world or to topical concerns … but then doesn’t one in some way process the external through the body and into the making of work?
