So, it’s been a fantastic weekend, but not much work or thinking has happened. It was a friends 30th birthday and she hired out a haunted-house-style, 4 or 5 storey mansion that slept something like 17 people! It was awesome and I have had an amazing time. But today is Monday and it’s now time to get back to ‘work’……
I have just been asked to take part in a Creative Partnerships project in North Baddersly , Southampton. This will be an 8-10 week project working with 2 classes of 8-9 year olds within a junior school. The school are extremely environmentally aware and have several ‘ecology projects’ running through the school. It seems that they want some more of that sort of stuff but combined with a ‘multi-cultural’ theme. Apparently there is a large tree in the play area of the school which is having to be removed, and they are quite keen to use this tree in someway within the project. I agree entirely. I think this is an excellent starting point and am really excited by it! I have no idea what I might do there yet, but I am thinking that this could be a great opportunity to run a ‘community project’ alongside a ‘personal project’. There are many cross-overs between my practice and the schools ethos (but I guess that’s kind of obvious or they would have chosen a different artist!), so I think I will try and juggle two projects at the same time but both dealing with the same thing – whatever that may be….. one thought is something based around Japanese Zen gardens but that’s as far as that thought has gone yet!
