http://www.wellcomecollection.org/whats-on/exhibit…
So this is the sort of thing we usually do right? we see something, we email it, we have a look, and maybe talk about it?
I don’t usually buy the Guardian, usually the Independent, but they ran out, so looking at the alternatives, the picture on the front of today’s Guardian was the one that drew my attention.
Helen Pynor’s Headache: Brain, threads, text. What do you think? I’m loving the combinaton myself!
http://www.wellcomecollection.org/whats-on/exhibit…
I had planned to talk about Geography for my next post, but this took over. I’ll leave Geography to one of the others, or come back to it another day. Today is a biology day.
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
