“if you practice something you’ll get better at it.” says the australian professor in connection to being hard on one self.
hi. i’ve started an online course in mindfulness.
i passed my forest school progression week. the practical day on wednesday was undertaken in “tricky” conditions according to the trainer. as with the initial week training, it’s taken me sometime for the intensity of the week to ebb. i am getting back to a flow state.
i’m feeling disconnected with my practice in art.
what also has happened is i’ve reached space where i can happily think of myself as a practioner in forest school and art or art and forest school. i feel so happy about avoiding having to describe myself as an artist.
i feel i have space to be myself.
if a viewer or person i converse with wishes to choose to describe or call me an artist i’ll not stop them, it is after all their frame of reference and their world view.
i’ve visited another photographic society, twice. a different set up to the first, much more ‘on it’. this morning i had an interesting discussion with a friend who is currently working with documenta.tv on volume 1 of the instagram series. in the conversation i started to question how the photographic society model might encompass instagram ….
in my forest school practice i’ve started to ‘get’ howto make convincing skulks of foxes.
over last weekend i watched some programmes where art was the main subject. i might not always get or understand fully the ideas or concepts being put forward however watching the programme creates a cocoon for thought to happen. this makes me feel happy.
while chatting today with my friend i mentioned to him the conversations i’ve started having. they’ve begun as a result of clearing a garden and wondering what might be the potential within the newly activated space. he asked me if i recorded them. i said yes, who where and when on my website.
what else do i need to note at this time?
the kitchen cupboard lighting project now is more wiggly and broadcasts useable data that i’m considering using to make a generative soundtrack.
i’ve set myself march 20th to have my forest school portfolio completed by.
i’ve helped my partner to rearrange the house to accomodate her materials following her move out of her studio following an increase in the rent.
i think that about covers it all for now.
with all that’s going on, i just need to remember to practice the good things i want to get better at.
