Furiously Mad: 300 Year of Legal Insanity

Thursday blog 3

i lie its not thursday its tuesday and i am 5 days late for my blog oops i do have a good excuse!

so how is it all going?

i have had a fantastic reponse to my request for help on face book. i asked people to choose a name from the 1400 and choose ‘Folly symptoms”

the most interesting thing for me has been the way people’s 14th centuary symptoms have been an extension of their own personallity, they may not know that they have responded in that way but i can totally see it. i thiught that people would just google symptoms of madness and copy and paste. here is one of the responses

Name Elianora de crombe
Date of birth 3rd October 1468 age 34
Folly symptoms Choleric personality (quickly aroused, egocentric,
wife – tavern singer
exhibitionist, hotheaded, histrionic, jealous, fierce)
Symptoms – uncontrollable rages when people don’t do as she asks. Chases people naked through the town if they disturb her sleep. beats men around the head if they look lustfully at her without permission, believesthey are the devil in disguise. She believes that the full
moon calls her name, speaks to her and urges her to dance in it’s light all night. she wears mens clothes andrefuses to go to church on Sundays.

if you knew this person you would say “oh yeh thats deffinatly her”

i still do not have any male input. come on you guys i want to see if the responce is about you or totaly fictional.

Things i have been thinking about.

how will the exhibit work without me to tell the stories?

how do i add an image to this blog?ok worked that one out doh!

things i need to make the exhibit visually interesting how can i bring people to my work in a joit exhibition? i would like to have a copy of the painting ‘cutting of the stone’ (hyronimus bosch) in a gilt frame suspended from the celing so it floats in the air.

things to do this week

buy white gloves, work more on the back story (need help in using language from the 1800’s) buy wood for tiny plynths. i have decided to experiment wiyh black and white backgrounds which will show the stones best? take some photos of ‘frankie Sommersby’, source an image of painting in high rez. phew thats a few things to get on with. im off to put the washing out and make scones. how exciting!

Traë

FOLLY STONES EXPERT 2

its thursday and true to my word i am working on the Furiously mad project.

thinking thinking thinking.

ive been trying to write a document that will be part of my piece that will not only be my script if i need prompts but it will also explain the exhibit whilst i am not there doing the performance. this is proving to be quit difficult as i do not write in big words and do not use much academic language (its just not my style) im not sure as yet how much detail i want to put into the document i think i might be over doing the detail. but i have time to fine tune it.

costume:

i have purchased my frankie summerston outfit im just waiting for my glasses to arrive from ebay and am on the look out for a ethnic piece of jewlry to set it off nicely.

so far all my helper from face book have comeup with zero information but it has only been a week. hopefully by next week i will have some names and follys for my document.

ttnf brain is hurting need a walk.

FOLLY STONES EXPERT

ok its 2014 christmas is OVER the child is back at school and its time to get my thinking cap on again. i have managed to put it off by destracting myself with a mountain of cooking and cleaning but i have just found that my computer has wifi in the kitchen so there will be no excuses from now on!

things i need to think about are

COSTUME:

i want to look like an academic (as i am not alowed to borrow a phm jumper for health and saftey reasons)so im thinking glasses some kind of skirt and wooly tights and a cardigan. sound academic????

name: do i choose a comedy name for my name badge something like Frank or something sensible? (i like frank, frank summerston) where does frank come from what academic place…..

(break for layering the lasagna)

the university of….. Durham (this has the best academic scores for history appart from cambridge)

hi im frank summerston from durham universtiy!

HOW WILL THE DISPLAY OF STONES LOOK?:

i have a display cabinate. a flat one that you look into from above. i’m thinking of putting the stones on small canvases or blocks of wood white in colour. i would like the audience to be able to touch the stones so i will need 2 pairs of white cotton cloves (or for fun and weirdness wolly gloves coloured hmmmm maybe?i need to have a chat with someone about that!)

CATALOGUE:

i should create a catalogue (so i have a script) this will tell the story of where the stones have come from. the stones are part of a collection on loan from the…

Wessynton estate from washington in Northamptonshire the wessyngtons were residants at the old hall washington from 1183 until 1539 when they moved to sulgrave manor. where Gertrude Margaret Lowthian bell was born (14 July 1868 – 12 July 1926) the collecter of the folly stones.

HOW I CAME ACROSS THE STONES

PROGRESS:

this weekend i have asked for help with the exhibition piece on face book i have 12 people taking part so far 10 women and 2 men both of which are gay. interesting! (maybe an idea for a new project)

so i am awaiting in the post their folly stones.

ok so thats not bad for 2 hours work lasagna and jam made aswell. off to buy some specs for Frank Summerston!

Trae