Stephen B. MacInnis sent me an interesting box from Prince Edward Island, Canada recently.
Stephen loves collaboration and forwarded a box of materials to the UK to assist him with his ‘long series’ which will eventually include 10,000 12×12 works on paper.
I was the UK box’s first stop and then I passed it on to Rachel Pinks from Derbyshire.
Stephen had begun work on many sheets including prints, marks, maps and photographs. I was amazed by how much of the imagery was similar to images I am currently working with.
I loved returning to collage and working on multiple works at the same time and have decided to explore my own works on paper to reflect on my recent trip to Ireland.
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On Sunday I returned from a field study project in Ballyvaughn, Ireland. I will have more to say about this amazing experience shortly.
What struck me on Monday when I uploaded 385 images from the trip was how my favourites at first glance where two images taken in Bristol on Sunday – after my return.
This is the beauty of travel and of ‘time and location’ explorations like the solar plate etching process introduced by David Ferry and Laura Lillie in cooperation with Burren College of Art: fresh eyes are afforded upon one’s return.
This makes me excited about my eventual return home to Canada.
W O R K I N G O U T S I D E O N E ‘ S C O M F O R T Z O N E
It has been suggested that, in exploring emotion as a way of knowing, it might be productive to work with images which are stripped of significance.
I was astounded by just how difficult it was to select images from my archives which were without some level of emotional resonance.
In the end, I let someone else pick.
Interestingly, Irene selected two images which speak to me of place – photos from a little gated alcove outside my Cardiff studio.
I returned there this morning and will extend my homework assignment by working with two artifacts found in the location which mean nothing to me.
Well,
they meant nothing to me until I photographed them and brought them home.
I think this might be a productive homework assignment.
My Intermediate Project explores transparency in the form of exposed materials and processes.
In particular, I am interested in learning’s palpable nature and to facilitate a focus on the feeling of learning, have decided that part of my practice-led research will involve working in a previously unexplored medium.
Great.
Way to go with the soul-destroying, ego melting, as-if-you-don’t-have-enough-on-your-plate-at-the-moment, moves.
I did not realize how strong I would have to be.
And this is weird, because I knew from the outset that learning is by nature destabilizing.
A whole lot of mucky stuff preceeds the satisfaction of intelligibility. And right now I am neck-deep in the mucky stuff.
Email this morning:
THE WORLD IS RUN BY THOSE WHO SHOW UP!
love,
Mom and Moe,
xoxoxoxo
xoxoxoxo
xoxoxoxo”
