After posting I went on to read Jane Boyer’s latest entry and indirectly she made me remember an incident this week. At a meeting with my arts officer, she kept refering to my work as ‘conceptual’. Do you know, I work so much in isolation that it hadn’t really occurred to me as being that obvious. She also refered to how I translate work and present it in a different way – that much I’d realised. My Brechtian belief in alienation wasn’t for nothing…
A series of blastings and filming them. Not all good ‘blasts’, not all worth filming but somewhere in the middle…
The quarry manager calls them ‘shot blasts’.
Stood waiting for a blast, the siren blaring, I ask what the holes surrounding us are. ‘They’re the shot blast holes’ – at this point I realise I can’t see where everyone else is and for a tiny moment I panic – the walkie talkie crackles – ‘yes, ready to blast’. We watch the side of an artificial cliff opposite collapse. They are next Monday’s holes ready for profiling. The mounds remind me of pale eastern spices or salt. Next Monday they will be gone and I will have filmed it.
Someone said to me yesterday:
“Every time I see a dead crow now I think of you…”
I’ll see that as a compliment then.
Admittedly this has almost nothing to do with my residency which has had to be put on a back-burner whilst we lime hemp plaster our living room in a very drafty stone house. We are against the clock as we can’t heat it until the plaster is dry – takes between a week and a month….
But in an attempt to carry on working, I’ve been putting together a new website in the evenings. My old one had never been right and I’ve never been able to update it although I had put that as request number one! The new one isn’t great but I can change and update when I want.
So any thoughts please let me know…
A quick call out:
A mixed show of contemporary art work from 20 Powys artist.
The Andrew Lamont Gallery
Theatr Brycheiniog
Canol Wharf
Brecon LD3 7DS
10th September – 3rd October 2010
I will be showing three of my residue works.
