Everyday I wake up with great intentions and seemingly swathes of time ahead but no school and snow everywhere seems to have a kind of soporific effect, trapping us in a weird kind of suspended dream world. The day has to be punctuated with monitoring sledging until our toes can’t bear it anymore, but in between times I am attempting to be productive.
Organising a crit group with a tiny group of brave souls who are spread widely apart geographically, not too mention under pressure time wise, is kind of tricky. In a splurge of enthusiasm I decided to set up an online group – ‘artconnector’ – so that, rather than constantly email back and forward, we could discuss dates etc together online and perhaps even host discussions on local issues and share advice between meetings. Still grappling with this though as the hotmail group doesn’t entirely have the ‘functionality’ ( a word I loathe but has suddenly for once become applicable) needed, I am also trialing a few others in case we have to change. For anyone in the Wilts/Hampshire area though, who may want to become a group member please let me know. It could just be a really nice thing to keep in touch over local developments, possibilties for collaboration and mutual support, and may make it possible to keep the ball rolling in between and in addition to physical meetings. I’ve also got to grips with Twitter finally.
Techno developments aside, I spent a bit of time developing drawings in the studio today. I was pleased with the results but disappointed that it is so diffficult to photograph delicate pieces. This is such a pain in the neck for me as my work is often very fragile and depends largely on the surrounding space to give it scale and context. Walking around it, the experience is very physical but trying to capture that on camera is almost impossible. Trying then to relay that experience to a curator with only phographic images to go on is extremely difficult. Perhaps I should try to film someone in the space instead. Does anyone out there share this problem?
