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i’m feeling rather pleased.  i’ve spoken to hayley skipper from the forestry commission this afternoon and asked the questions i’ve been waiting to ask.

i can set about finishing the review now.

still the review remains incomplete.  i still have some questions and i’m hoping that i’ll be able soon ask them.

the visit made possible by the #goandseebursary made a big impression on me. as each day passes from that time i’m able to reflect that bit more objectively. this morning i’ve rewritten the review, included more images and have started to make it a little more interesting … at least i hope that’s the case.

of course the benefit of collaborative working is that there is someone else to run the words by … do these encompass what we did, what we felt, how we felt inspired …. ?

still i learn more about myself and how i work.  those days of feeling unsettled helping me to know that something is resolved when i get a clear enough head to work with words.

there was something else i wanted to add here …. oh yes !!  the moving onto the project in which we’ll use what we learnt at grizedale !

i’ve begun the mediation of the project today by hinting at when we’ve finished writing the review for the go and see funded visit we can work on the next exhibiting opportunity.  i’ve got it out there about how this will be outdoors …

i am getting close to publishing the review and moving onto the project …. the project in which we’ll produce an art walk ….

i’m looking forward to blogging about it the coming months. xx

i return today to finishing off the review for our #goandseebursary .

from a review of twitter i saw that my review needed to answer a question we’d set ourselves.  today i’ve emailed hayley at grizedale to ask some questions so that the question might be answerable.

for now the review will need to remain as a draft.

part of the research before making the #goandseebursary visit to grizedale was to familiarise ourselves with grizedale through their archive website.

it’s the result of a phd research made by edwina fitzpatrick.

today i’ve emailed with edwina with some thoughts and reflections about grizedale, it’ll be great to hear something back, i didn’t however ask any specific questions, more like observations that i’m testing the water with edwina about.

it’s becoming important to create the review of the the visit, not only so it’s neatly rounded off but also to make space to begin the online presence of the art walk project and to start making plans for that.

i expect i’ll write the review with both the visit and the project next may in mind.

the visit to grizedale evoked so much energy in me. somehow i’d like to recreate that in the park in belper for others to experience and enjoy.

my reflective process of the #goandseebursary has gained some form

completed storify timeline of the main part of the visit
write and thank the curator of the arts development team at the forestry commission
write more blog posts
compose review and collaborate with chris on it’s final form
publish the review.

so far it’s going well … upto the “write more blog posts” part.

i published the storify timeline this morning. the process of putting it all together is one i very much enjoyed and would certainly recommend considering it for any kind of project.  the storify time line is available to view at

https://storify.com/a_m_s/goandseebursary-corridor-arts

having published it i moved straight onto emailing the curator.   that was a good thing to do as it connected me to some of the sources of emotion that i felt while in the forest at grizedale.

another highlight  of the go and see bursary  were –  the sporning of thoughts – leading to spoken words – leading to examination of the meaning of those words. we had so many discussions about where we were, what we saw and what we aspire to do with the art walk project next may.

i’ve also updated the image of this blog. for the record it’s this image

it’s a photograph of 17 degrees south by linda watson (1997) with chris gray.

you’ll see in the storify timeline that we interacted with some of the sculptures.  i’ve reflected about this and have concluded that we were able to interact as they are in the landscape and the landscape is within them.

i’m still processing the information we aquired through conversation with the proprietors of the b&b we stayed in about bill grant and his influence at grizedale to introdce sculpture into the forest….