SEED OR STONE? DEAD OR ALIVE? and ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS.
It has often been an issue for me that I’ve not been able to pinpoint the “right” questions – the questions which might lead me to some sort of clarity in my work.
A little while back I went to Crafting Life, a symposium accompanying Melanie Jackson and Revital Cohen’s exhibition, Transformism, at the John Hansard Gallery. This was an important day for me; a moment when some of the right questions began to form in my mind.
I began to understand some time ago that it’s good to squirrel away knowledge and information, thoughts and ideas, which may seem quite haphazard but which somehow relate to an unidentified “something” which seems important, because one day this not-so-random hoarding habit might provide clues to the answers when the right questions are found. Sorry. It’s complicated.
So a little bit of my current collecting of thoughts and ideas involves seeds and stones. Why should some of those chance agglomerations of atoms in the primordial soup (yes, that’s still on my mind) become “life” and others remain “not life”; some to produce seed, the others to become stones. I’m drawing some stones while I think about this. They are surprisingly hard to draw.
