This week I have managed a little of everything and that accumulation of small acts has aired old ideas and propagated new ones.
- On Monday I returned to a woodcut previously pushed aside and made a new registration block.
- Tuesday I met with Jane Watt to read some lines from Robert Smithson for a film she’s working on. Each time I read the quote out loud, listening to the words whilst she recorded, they became more meaningful. I rarely have occasion to read out loud now and I’d forgotten how understanding is enriched by the act of saying the thing as opposed to silent reading.
- Wednesday was the inaugural session of Perienne’s Christian’s Creative Cafe, I enjoy her work and have previously taken part in her online Royal Drawing School classes. She conveys a sense of play and intention alongside gentle steadfastness and calm making the community she’s brought together a safe and inspiring space. I’m very much looking forward to what it will bring to my practice.
- Thursday, intending to prepare something new, I picked up an abandoned canvas to reuse the stretcher, but instead resolved what was on it into something that now works.
- And yesterday I met with Val Bright-Jones visited a new exhibition space we’d booked and swapped news, thoughts and enthusiasms over coffee.
“One’s mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion. Mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs of thought, ideas decompose into stones of unknowing, and conceptual crystallizations break apart into deposits of gritty reason.”
Robert Smithson (1968) ‘A Sedimentation of the Mind: Earth Projects’
