Have started work on a Collaboration with the English dept at UCS. Have chosen 2 poems one about not knowing who ones great g’ma really is….and another 6 word statement about the “Pills don’t work”. Hopefully this latter one will give me motivation to finish my medical helmet.
The figures are inked onto peplum which is stiff enough to stand up but flexible enough to stitch.
I had in mind the Russian dolls that fit inside one another but swerved off into the idea of 4 separate figures that could group together.
The sketches were spontaneous and perhaps need more research and thought about scale. But they are part of my mission to loosen up and interpret rather than illustrate. Take advantage of my ability to draw but not let it take over. Or is that an excuse to be impatient.
It has been a pressured year what with polymyalgia and the need to get something achieved before I became too tired…..and the www.glengerrard.com website [requirement of Professional Dev.]and this blog and my mother having a stroke and of course the dreaded dissertation, still no feed back.
Life and Art; Art fills my thoughts but Life requires physical attention. Women are culturally programmed to nurture others before themselves, and my website now reflects this theme, which makes it feel more personal.
I guess I should look at my own dear g’ma, and great g’ma but perhaps that falls too close to stereotypical women’s issues??
