i’ve enjoyed myself this morning, chatting with mr gilbert. made a little mistake in not eating enough prior to the afternoon meeting. not eating affects my mood rather. something i am aware of and something of a project yet to be started.
this project is reaching installing time. it’s difficult to reflect on a day when part of it is tarnished by disappointment and hunger. one making the other worse.
in my present,the recent past calls into focus happenings of an older past. adding recent past to older past, creates a present condition informed by recent and older past. considering older past, recent past and present is enough to start to project possible futures, only by challenging the recent past, ie asking why they were not at the meeting, can i challenge the possible futures. this is very close to what my work is about.
last week i realised an answer to the question
“so what is your work about?”
i answered…
“ambiguous answers to notional questions”
ambiguity is important to me. especially work made by me to go into a formal gallery space, where social convention is to look at art.
i want viewers of it to talk about the work, to break the compliant silence, to dare to vocalise their thoughts. to dare to ask…
“what the f*** is this about?”
only a question can evoke an answer. … …..
how difficult is it to ask a question.
it’s not particle physics after all.
