The wiggly lines/cells and skin, I had pictured as a screen people could walk around. I quite like the idea of an installation of a number of screens through which we can see or not see, communicate or not?
Franny’s mattress support could be displayed as a screen too?
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I’ve got some scribbles and ideas too in my ptb sketch/note book, could add those too.
there is an article in one of my selvedge magazines about medical/surgical textiles, will find it for you, could be some links there.I’d like us to put a huge piece of paper on a big table and get all these ideas in one place and link them together to see what we come up with.doing things with wire…. I did some wire writing a while back… text as support for the rosettes? At some point I think we should even have a workshop session together. Actually… maybe that could be a proposal worth setting out…. the DOING of it, not just the results? ptb goes on tour. 3 pieces of work, in 3 venues, made by 3 people from just what they take into a room – what do you think?
(I can’t find an online version of the article, but it’s in selvedge magazine, issue 15, p47 by Marie O’Mahoney)
Hi both
So lovely to open my e-mail inbox and see you both in there.
Huge, humungus congratulations Elena; you worked so hard and gave it your absolute all, and we all loved going on the journey with you.
I too wish I could do an MA. Can’t do it unless I get a job and work for the dosh – and I don’t appear to want it that much!
I just wish we were closer. It would be lovely – but then again we might lose the special bit of what we have; so maybe not.
Elena – I will keep my ears open for something that would suit your work – I get a lot of opportunities sent to me for Sevenoaks Visual Arts Forum.
I shan’t forget you if a group are looking for a textile/installation artist either.
So glad that good things are coming your way Julie. You work so hard you really do deserve it.
Project To Be?
The PTB –
Meet in January and talk our selves silly [!] Can’t wait to give you both a proper hug.
Then I guess we need to thrash out which way we want to go….
Revert to the original plan of all working on blood in some way?
If so I would be interested in working on malarial ‘rosettes’ in blood. They cause cerebral malaria – the PHD work my doctor daughter is doing…
One current idea = a [single size] black metal bedstead with red ‘rosettes’ [they look somewhat like flowers] – red paper and cake wire* woven into the wire netting of the matress support….with a malarial net above it………
*same making process as the insects and seedlings on my website.
By following the blood route we would be moving away from the quite unique concept of the three of us meeting online and blogging about ourselves and the project for 18 months………..would we be missing the opportunity to offer something no one else can?
….that seems to speak to me of a concept that looks at communication/online relationships…………
Or mix the two? Blood being a communicator/carrier of hormones/oxygen etc.
I have a vision of print outs of our e-mails [words printed in white on a red background] cut into ribbons and flowing in and out of test tubes in a huge crazy installation of test tube racks!!!
hmm……………………….you can tell I have been driving to Hastings a lot recently.
Too much thinking in the car…..xxxx
Ok Franny and Julie, I’m ready! MA done…. where do we start?
