goldsmiths

final cut pro kept me awake til 1, it was playing with me. this morning it worked, think it was being contrary, wanting me to close and restart the programme before it would let me write back to dv tape. suppose thats why not doing the editing at uni is harder, you have to work it out yourself. tho i can sort of fit it in round the manic house, instead of being stuck in a uni air conditioned lab. with no tea.

thankyou for the 'hope he gets better wishes". he is back at school and doing his art gcse this week, after much assistance with cutting/sticking stuff into his sketch book and being a scribe for his annotation. it took so long, both up til midnight the last couple of nights, and i am so glad that i dont have any 'project' type work to do on the ba course. luckily he's good at photoshop.

i have been asked to talk at the a-n AIR open dialogue thing on may 18th, "Rivington Place (home of Iniva) on 18 May, 6.30-8.30pm. The other speaker is Laura de beneditti – see her blog on Artists Talking.These are informal events at which two artists each speak (from within a circle of chairs) for ten minutes – the theme is ‘points of reflection and departure’ which has a resonance for most artists, whatever career stage. For you as an about-to-graduate- student it would be interesting to follow the areas you have covered on your blog ", not to panic yet about what i am saying but it's slowly forming in an empty corner of my head, just behind the bit where i keep the jam.

this week has been running to hospitals in deep, green kent to new cross, adding a couple of dizzy circles in between. this has been the only chance i have had to stop and think for a couple of weeks, so i am going to continue the thinking in a big, hot, bubbly bath, until the water gets cold.

really need to get back to work and start editing degree show stuff today. its been a bit busy here with the poorly finger, but the horror has faded and the drugs have been taken, so i dont need to be nurse somuch.

so, being a parent and artist. the former comes first. degree shows are a tiny thing.

the middle child (who's about to do gcses) slammed his finger in a door and has the end of it sewed back on this morning.

strange timing but i came back from hospital to find an email from a-n. asking to submit some pics for the magazine as they are doing a bit about parent artists.

the blog is resting…

ive been thinking about the gap between submitting work via show reel dvd/photographic slide and the actual work. how does one illustrate the other? and does it manage it at all?

unless it is work made to be viewed on a dvd on a computer, or a slide intended to be viewed by being held up by an unsteady hand to the light; is there much point?

should we stick to presenting work in a gallery, displaying the work as it is meant to be shown? and perhaps forget submitting to renowned competitions and enclosing a fee?

im beginning to think so.