i like to sit back with a cup of tea and meander through my daily four of the clock. fortunately today i find myself alone in the studio so i;ve got my feet up on the furniture, as no one knows i’m doing it!
it’s been quiet here for a few days.
the end of last week was mared by some scumble or scumbles unknown removing the lead facing on the garage at the house. it upset me rather.
any way one good thing to come out of being a victim of crime was doing some drawing. one of those empty shop things was happening. the resident artist was drawing and inviting visitors to draw something too. i’ve added an image of what i drew on my page on facebook. i liked the artist enough so to go back and document her work. oh, how rude of me, her name is diana shepherd. i saw an opportunity to make a very wide digital image of her drawing, the drawing must have been in excess of 10 metres wide. i’ve sent her the file and other images this afternoon.
i’ve been thinking about something emily speed wrote very early on in this residency, which was :
“I like your point about the lack of it being a big deal.. better somehow (for creativity – not life planning) if it all catches you by surprise I think.”
i do have to admit to not quite understanding fully the life planning bit. isn’t any other residency about creativity? interestingly, because i’ve been happier in myself because i have been making loads, i have been able to do some future planning, which feels so liberating.
and what of outcomes of this residency? well today there’s feet up on furniture, i wouldn’t have expected that treat so soon. there’s the collaborative little film with the young whipper snapper, the edit of wich is progressing. the young chap has been off doing interesting things with metal, so he’s not been around for a few days. i’m sure i’ll see him once he’s taken care of his metal engagement. there’s also the you tube channel that i’ve started to use, and make stuff for. making stuff to place specifically on the channel is quite a shift in my attitude towards the channel. i’ve also re-engaged with the photobox pro gallery system. i’ve set myself up some opportunities to investigate image making, something that will carry on after the residency has been completed. the image making gives me an outlet for potentially political or social stuff, while my sculptural new media investigation remains focused on the human being, irrelevant of politics, religion and anything else that might get in the way of simply enjoying the process of being alive.
i’ve let the studio know that i have an opportunity to document an event this weekend and i’ve had a call back to do more lighting design next week, so i mite delay the end of the residency for a few days to accommodate all this other stuff.
being in positive mental space and writing, while my feet are up, i realise i am really quite busy, doing stuff i am enjoying and the bonus is i have started talks about my next big project. having the talks on going leaves me in a positive mental space to enjoy doing other things. making doing thinking etc.
