JUST SOME PAST SNIPPETS:
The college work will get done, but you know how it is, you go zapping about on adrenaline then when it’s all done you slump!
I love the idea that this time for thinking has led us into ways to include our relationship in work we are already doing, the way we already work, so it’s new, but intermingled somehow.
I have been also thinking about keeping words secret, embroidering, then unpicking so you leave traces, but not so legible.
For me everything has changed since we’ve been emailing and it’s become about the distance between us being stripped away because of the internet usually but also about it being so evident when I just want to talk to someone face to face, go for a coffee etc.
I have been keeping snatches of our e-mail conversations in a file. I think it’s the concept of sharing and support that interests me …. the fact that our back stories are unfolding so slowly………..
I have no real concepts for a work yet.
I think I said before that in my head our conversations are linear and when I try to think of them as an art work they become tapes – like the kids school name tapes.
To obscure the text because I don’t really want others to share our secrets…
Hmm…..maybe I will blog about that. When I have done some work!
Can’t find the matching paper I put aside now.
Aren’t we lucky to have each other?
Then I think I’m going to embroider tantalising bits of confessional text all over it… maybe…
Thinking of you… both of you…
Things are plodding on quite happily here for me at the moment, but as they do, even as the eternal optimist, I am aware that things can turn around in a second, for better and worse.
That’s the problem but often the excitement too with being artists isn’t it, you just don’t know what’s around the next corner and when you’ll have to put things on hold… I can wait.
So instead of lurking about on facebook, I thought I’d make you two suffer instead – because that’s the kind of good friend I am!
I have just come back from walking the dog and we have a huge and beautiful moon outside. Have a look. It might cheer you up.
I need to win the lottery…
how much do you think I’d need in order to give up work, be a full time artist with all the expense that entails, and be able to afford to hop up north or down south whenever I felt like it? I’m itching to see your work in the flesh!
I did wonder about sending songs, but it is quite a big part of my practice, so here goes….
hope you like it.
Something in his songs always follows me like mist even after I have walked away.
I’m rubbish with music, I loved it when I was a teenager and would spend hours listening to various things, but once kids came along and jobs and then art that was it.
Ooh !
A parcel of delights! Thank you so much, this is just the sort of cast off I like….
This inevitably led to me talking about us 3, and he was really interested in the fact that we didn’t know each other and that we’ve still not met, and yet have suggested working together in some way …
Added by Franny.
