I’ve been a bit of a bad blogger lately (I’m sure we all go through these neglectful phases from time to time) but I think it is now the right moment to become much more thoughtful and thorough on what I post.
I talked about the difference between immersed and immediate studio time in my profile with Richard Taylor. It was said that while the blogging was direct and immediate compared to long hours labouring over the artwork, the opposite is now starting to happen. Since I have already made the work and have decided to document it through a digital medium (projection) the experiments are now quite short. While this is the case, careful consideration is essential and I think that writing in this blogging arena will now take longer than the practical processes.
My practice is becoming a series of experiments in order to make sense of unanswered questions. The final aesthetic outcome is not necessarily as important as finding out these answers. I almost feel like a scientist!
We’re five days into March, and so far it gets 10/10. Nasty February is long gone, I’m feeling very positive. I have managed to film for five days and the room I moved to actually produces much better light (we’ve had beautiful sunny mornings this week.) I’ll edit this afternoon and see what can be produced from my mass of footage. I also practiced projecting onto and through acetate and it works, another progression. I feel as though I’ve completed two weeks worth of work within four days.
I’m going to Edinburgh tomorrow to (my favourite) Fruitmarket Gallery to see Toby Paterson’s show, and the AV festival starts today too, lots of exciting things to see….I’ll report back!
The crit on Friday was very successful for the stage we’re at right now. The statement covers all the main points (the blogger profile has helped a lot with this!) and now just needs refining…I’ll have to send it to a few different people to get their suggestions. Although I didn’t have the video to show yet, the installation was up so everybody had a chance to visualise what it could look like, and gave me tips on how it should be filmed.
So, I was on a high point at 16.45, by 17.00 I couldn’t have been more angry. My work hangs in a crit room as my space is tiny and cluttered with bad light, and I was told that I had to take it down for the weekend. It takes so long to put up and take down, and on top of this, it becomes tangled when it isn’t hanging. Just when I thought things were going well; a good response and a camera at last, I now won’t be able to film on Monday! I’m being tested….
Just when I thought my brain was going to explode with frustration a lovely lady has helped me out with getting the equipment I need to produce my video! A day spent with an awful (stress) migraine in bed has been lightened with this news.
I have also, potentially, refined my ideas for the presentation of my work. I won’t give out details yet as I have a crit tomorrow (and it may get shot down) but I will say that like everything else I plan on doing, it’s going to be a steep learning curve!
Suffering from mid point exhaustion.
