Water on all sides and storms rolling in all day…..You just can’t escape the weather here, and now at night, lightning. Spending a lot of time inside, walked around the other side of the harbour to look at the Swan, herring drifter boat. Caught in a squall again. Spent the day drawing and sorting through images, all the hundreds I have accumulated over the last weeks…….this process is a strange animal, you just have to let it take its course, even in the space of a week ideas have been started and abandoned in a morning, new ones arrived, thrown out, changed and in between are the moments of clarity. Getting it down, deciding if it is worth continuing with, try another way, draw it, make it, wander around, have another view, continue to draw, keep working through it…… Louise Bourgeois talked about her
thought feathers ‘ ideas that I seize in mid flight and put down on paper’……….it is that fleeting, so the place has to be returned to day after day to try and catch them.
On a more robust note this is the Adenia Trawler cut in half during her recent lengthening when a 10m section was inserted in the middle
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