I don’t think we have talked about ground rules either; it didn’t occur to me that we’d need to. In fact we didn’t really discuss how we would approach this thing at all. But I think a bit of trial and error is okay, we’ll soon get into the flow of it.
Last bit of background info from me:
When this thing started I thought we might be looking at the collaboration based on something medical. It was all very vague because we couldn’t commit to anything until later this year or even into next year sometime. I don’t have any sort of medical background but I often refer to microscopic images and the idea seemed to be that we would ‘maybe’ pick a medical subject and find a way of exploring it in an artistic manner. But that’s as far as we got really.
Because it was going to be so far in the future we just chatted, discussed our practices, looked at other artists work and eventually told each other a little about ourselves. The project itself was no longer the main focus in our emails; it just simmered away in the background.
And somewhere along the way the idea of the project has become something else… not sure what…
This way of ‘working’ is very different for me, I’m not sketching or making, the emails are my only evidence of research, note taking and the forming of ideas. I generally use my blogs to refer back too when revisiting project ideas etc so I’m hoping I can unjumble the emails when I need them. The blog is going to be a useful tool for me and in that respect I am relieved now that we’ve taken the plunge.
Julie
I don’t think we even talked about having “ground rules” for this, and I hadn’t anticipated the need, other than one for general good manners! I would feel free to say things about my own life and work, but would never presume to say anything about Julie’s and Franny’s unless asked! I hadn’t anticipated that the blog would be about the blog at all really. Daft that… because that’s what is different to the usual group blog. It’s not about a project yet, it’s about the conversation so far.
I don’t think we should worry about following on from what the previous person has written. We’ll meander and stumble along and find out what works. Julie and Franny, you don’t need to ask permission from me to write anything.
Please do tell if my bad language becomes too much!
Well we still have an e-mail conversation going on behind the scenes…going to be interesting to see if we actually transfer all our conversations to the public arena. Have just received this from Elena…
‘There… blog blogged, tweeted and posted on facebook, mentioned in my own blog… anything I’ve missed?
Also just stitched my embroidery to my ……. trousers and it’s all got to be unpicked and I’d done loads so I’m really …… off and the air here is blue.
And I expect you will both think that is hysterically funny don’t you? Everyone here is wetting themselves. Oh the hilarity of it all! Bollocks!’
And in case you’re wondering – I did ask…along the lines of ‘Bags I be the one to post that!’
And she said go for it…..what a woman.
That’s why I love having these two great people online.
It’s Life enhancing.
Franny.
Aha!
I see a bit of a problem…
Franny (well I presume Franny) has just written “Fish Fingers!” on David Minton’s blog. Trouble is, because she was logged in to write here, it says it’s me that wrote it. Now I’m not averse to a cryptic comment, and I’m quite partial to fish fingers, but it wasn’t me! honest!
This could be a test of the relationship… will Franny and Julie see it as a way of casting mischief and merriment among the bloggers, at my expense?
Could be fun…
Elena
Thank you for the offer of a cup of tea Elena, but may I have a coffee? I don’t drink tea!
You see…we know eachother so well and then again not at all.
Well. Here we three all are at last. The private gone public. Artists in very different ways, very different people, and miles and miles apart we have discovered….
It seems such a long time ago that the others invited me to join them in thinking about what has become in my mind the PTB – Project To Be. So, so lovely to be asked on the basis of the work I was posting at the time.
The PTB is still to be. We meander on discussing art and with our backstories slowly unfolding. The chaos of our lives is echoed in eachothers lives, as is the discipline and thought space that our work entails.
My e-mail mates have become a support, a resource, a sounding board and a crit. We look at art and see things that resonate with not just our work but theirs as well and instantly feel the need to share……..
Going public does make me nervous, I feel worried for what we had, that it might not survive the glare or that the voices might change. It feels very vulnerable.
……….and exciting.
